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SACRED POEMS ANt) HYMNS. 



SACRED 



POEMS AND HYMNS, 



FOE 



PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DEVOTION 
Entered 

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^ .rAlES MONTGOMERY. 



" From young and old, with every brenth. 
Let prayer and praiae arise : 
Life be " flie daily offering,"— DeaJli, 
"The evening sacrifice." 

Hy'mn lxxv., ]). 81. 



WITH THE AUTHOR'S LATEST CORRECTIONS, AND AN 
INTRODUCTION BY JOHN HOLLAND. 



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PREFACE 



In the Christian Psalmist, compiled twenty- 
five years ago, by the Author of the present 
Yolume, he became known as a Hymn- Writer ; 
and, since then, having frequently exercised his 
vein in like manner, a considerable number of 
his compositions have been repubhshed (with or 
without leave) by Editors of similar Miscellanies, 
or in authorized Hymn-Books. Of this he has 
never complained, being rather humbly thank- 
ful, that any imperfect strains of his should be 
thus employed in giving " Glory to God in the 
highest,'' promoting " On earth peace,'' and 
diffusing " Good will totvard men." But of the 
liberties taken by some of these borrowers of 
his effusions, to modify certain passages, ac- 
cording to their peculiar taste and notions, he 
must avail himself of the present opportunity 



VI PREFACE. 

to remind them, that if good people (and such 
he verily beheves them to be) cannot con- 
scientiously adopt his diction and doctrine, it is 
a httle questionable in them to impose upon 
him theirs, which he may as honestly hesitate to 
receive. Yet this is the Cross, by which every 
Author of a hymn, who hopes to be useful in 
his generation, may expect to be tested, at the 
pleasure of any Christian brother, however 
incompetent or little qualified to amend what 
he may deem amiss in one of the most delicate 
and difficult exercises of a tender heart and an 
enlightened understanding. This indeed is " a 
thorn in the flesh," which the sufferer must 
learn to bear with meekness, and, if possible, to 
profit by the humiliation ; though a versifier of 
any other class might, perhaps, be forgiven, if 
he indignantly resented it. It has been, on this 
account, that the individual (who now presents 
himself for judgment at a tribunal from which 
there is no infallible appeal,) has emphatically 
entitled his lucubrations, — " Original Hymns, 
by J. M.," meaning only thereby, that they are 
now given to the world in that form of words, 



PREFACE. Vii 

for which he can, at prese^it, hold himself 
responsible ; being persuaded, that they will be 
generally accepted with the same candour and 
indulgence with which a few of them have been 
extensively read by private persons, and intro- 
duced to churches and congregations by faith- 
ful and true ministers of Christ's Gospel. 



Having, on three former occasions, expatiated 
freely on Hymnology and Sacred Poesy ,-'' I will 
close this egotistical preamble to the most 
serious work of my long life (now passing 
fourscore years), with a brief quotation from 
what may be esteemed a sainted authority on 
such a subject. Bishop Ken, somewhere, says, 
beautifully, humbly, and poetically, — 

" And should the well-meant song I leave behind, 
With Jesus' lovers some acceptance find, 
'Twill heighten even the joys of heaven to know, 
That in my verse saints sing God's praise below." 

And was not this hope prophetic ! fulfilling 
continually to this day, nor ever likely to fail 

* See Introductory Essays, by James Montgomery, to 
the "Christian Psalmist," the "Christian Poet," and an 
edition of the '-'Olney Hymns." Published by "William 
Collins. Glasgow. 



VUl PREFACE. 

while the Gospel is preached throughout the 
whole world in the language of Britain ! It 
may even be doubted whether there is a stanza 
of four lines in the compass of our literature, 
which has been so often remembered, repeated, 
and sung, as the Doxology, appended to each of 
the good prelate's inestimable Triad of Hymns, 
for Morning, Evening and Midnight. 

" Praise God, from whom all blessings flo-w, 
Praise Him, all creatures here below ; 
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host, 
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost," 

And who that has learned this rapturous strain 
on earth, can be presumed to forget it in heaven, 
if he reaches that consummation of glory, and 
of bliss ? 



JAMES MONTGOMERY. 



The Mount, Sheffield, 
January 1, 1853. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Twenty-five years ago, it was my happiness to be 
commended to the good-will of American readers in 
their own country,* by my honoured friend, James 
Montgomery : it was one of a thousand acts of un- 
solicited kindness for which I have been indebted 
to him during the period of more than a quarter of 
a century that I have enjoyed his confidence and 
his counsel. It is now my privilege, publicly, — not 
to return, but — to acknowledge the obligation " in 
kind," by presuming, without authority, and inea 
periculo, to prefix an Introduction to a work of 
his. I must, however, at the outset, utterly repudi- 
ate the possibility of a notion on my part, that any 
thing from the pen of Montgomery, and least of all 
such a volume as this, can require to be either 
introduced or advocated in any place where his 
mother tongue is spoken, where the love of English 
poetry is enjoyed, and where the influence of Chris- 
tianity is recognized as leading not less to the re- 

* In a letter prefixed to a Memoir of the Rev. John Sum- 
merfield, pubHshed in 1829. 

A 



X INTRODUCTION. 

finement of the intellectual, than to the purification 
of the moral character of man. 

To the literary and educated circles of society 
in the United States, therefore, on the foregoing as 
well as on other grounds of universally acknow- 
ledged sympathy, the author of " The Wanderer 
of Switzerland," " The West Indies," " The World 
before the Flood," " The Pelican Island," &c., has 
long been as familiar — may I not say always as 
welcome ? — as to similar classes of readers in his 
own country. It is not, then, with any design of 
bespeaking for my revered friend a more hearty 
welcome, much less in any hope of sharing in that 
welcome, that I venture to present myself in his 
company on the present occasion. For however 
little any of his former works might have been 
presumed to require adventitious introduction, the 
volume now in the reader's hand stands least in 
need of it. For, to any people keenly alive to the 
importance of an orthodox expression of evangelical 
truth, in any form, or through whatever instrumen- 
tality, and who are, at the same time, sufficiently 
free from sectarian trammels to be allowed to wel- 
come it, every new and happy embodiment of a 
precious Scriptural sentiment, whether in prose or 
verse, becomes a fresh and, if not a social, at least 
a personal source of spiritual enjoyment and edifi- 
cation. I record this opinion the more willingly 
and distinctly here, because, if it applies generally 
wherever the mind of the true believer and the 



INTRODUCTION. XI 

Word of God are alike " unfettered," it may per- 
haps be urged with a more especial and happy sig- 
nij&cance among a people whose sacred literature is 
remarkable for its sound, expansive, and practical 
character. For I entirely agree with Montgomery, 
that, " In no walk of literature have our trans- 
atlantic kindred so worthily rivalled, and so nearly 
equalled, the writers of the parent country as in 
works of divinity." * 

It may be objected, — the recognized importance, 
the influence, and the praise of sermo;is, whether as 
delivered from the pulpit or the press, must not be 
allowed to be tacitly transferred to compositions in 
rhyme. Perhaps not ; and yet the taste for good 
poetry, the appreciation of congregational singing, 
and the consequent requirement and requital of the 
services of the minstrel or the vocalist — not more 
surely in the saloon than in the sanctuary — are suf- 
ficient evidences that the good people of the trans- 
atlantic cities and villages, have at least the same 
feelings and enjoyments as those of the " old coun- 
try " in these matters. 

It may also, I presume, be affirmed of the leading 
orthodox communities of Christians in the United 
States, as of those in Great Britain, that they 
generally use in their public worship either some 
metrical version of the Psalms of David, the 

* Introduction to " A Voice from the Sanctuary," a series 
of Missionary Discourses by American Divines. 1845. 



XU INTRODUCTIOxM. 

Hymns of Dr. Watts, the collection made by the 
Rev. John Wesley, or selections from some of 
these, with more or less admixture of " original 
matter." Into the relative merits or comparative 
importance of the works here named, or alluded to, 
it is not my present intention to enter ; and this 
would the less become me, as I shall have occasion 
to cite higher authority than my own on this sub- 
ject, in the course of this Preface. With respect 
to rhythmical versions of the Psalms for choral 
uses, I may mention, in passing, that having several 
years ago published a particular work on this sub- 
ject,* I am prepared to assert that while certain 
adventitious versifiers of the United States, early 
and late, must be content to share with the elders 
of their language in Europe the moderate praise 
of having rather laudably aimed at, than of having 
perfectly succeeded in the hopeless attempt at 
giving to the sentiments of the inspired penmen 
the same impressive tone in the choir service-book 
that they possess in the " authorized version " of 
the Bible, they have, nevertheless, exhibited some 
specimens of a metrical rendering of the sacred 
songs of the sweet singer of Israel, which are not 
inferior to the best of those produced in the mother 
country. 

To come now more immediately to the author of 
the work before us, it may be proper to show what 

* The Psalmists of Britain. 2 vols. 1843. 



INTRODUCTION. XIU 

are his qualifications for the attempt to add " new 
strings to the celestial lyre " — new strains of sacred 
harmony to those which the church has so long 
possessed and approved, and this without the risk 
on his part of lessening a well-earned poetical repu- 
tation, by an ill-timed contest for the cheap distinc- 
tion of a merely religious versifier. Those persons 
who know any thing of the early life and education 
of James Montgomery, as sketched by himself in 
the Preface to his Collected Poems, will remember 
that he was born and brought up among the Mora- 
vians, a people in whose public worship and private 
devotions singing, whether aided by instrumental 
accompaniment or not, always formed a large and 
delightful element. In this branch of divine ser- 
vice, as maintained in the church of his fathers, the 
youthful poet took an early and an abiding interest ; 
and, as might be expected, in imitations of the 
simple but heart-touching compositions of the 
Hymn Book then in use among the Brethren, and 
long afterwards revised by him, the earliest kin- 
dlings of his genius manifested themselves. Soon 
after he came to reside in Sheffield, some years 
before the commencement of the present century, 
and thenceforward, as his poetical reputation in- 
creased, and his religious character developed itself, 
with a singular freedom from sectarian exclusiveness, 
and coincidently with the origin of those various 
institutions of piety which have so greatly distin- 
guished our times, he was often called upon to ren- 



XIV INTRODUCTION. 

der his rhythmical skill tributary to devotion, by 
the production of hymns for occasional purposes. 
Among the welcome, or, at least, willingly gratified 
petitioners for services of this kind, were not merely 
the managers of Sunday-school, Missionary, and 
Bible-Society anniversaries, &c., in the town where 
he resided, and who could urge the local plea of re- 
ligious citizenship, but the compilers of Hymn 
Books in every part of the United Kingdom. To 
such an extent had the taste of the Poet, and the 
solicitations of his admirers, concurred in this 
heavenward direction, that, in 1825, he comprised, 
in a published work, which I shall presently more 
particularly describe, one hundred Original Hymns. 
He also tried his hand upon compositions in metre 
founded on the Psalms ; the result of which ex- 
periment he also published, in 1822, under the title 
of "Songs of Zion." To these "imitations," as 
the author called them — sixty-seven in number — he 
affixed a very brief preface, in which he says, " he 
would venture to hope that, by avoiding the rugged 
literality of some, and the diifusive paraphrases of 
others, he may, in a few instances, have approached 
nearer than either of them have generally done to 
the ideal model of what devotional poems, in a 
modern tongue, grounded upon the subjects of an- 
cient psalms, yet suited for Christian edification, 
ought to be." The success and the value of this 
experiment will, no doubt, be variously estimated 
by different readers, as they privately peruse, or 



INTRODUCTION. XV 

publicly sing the several specimens of the " Songs 
of Zion " which are comprised in the contents 
of the present Hymn Book. 

But Mr. Montgomery's connection with hym 
nology has not been confined to his own metrical 
achievements in the service of the sanctuary. 
Willing to impart to others, so far as " the art un- 
teachable, untaught," can be communicated or im- 
proved by precept, the secret of his own successful 
practice, he has, in public lectures, printed essays, 
prefaces to books, and in private conversations, ad- 
vocated the claims and explained the relations of 
sacred literature — and, in his hands, almost all 
literature became sacred — under the various forms 
which poetry may assume. At present, however, 
our concern is mainly with his opinions as they 
relate to such lyric compositions as are adapted to 
the elucidation or adornment of religious themes, 
the exhibition of Scripture facts and doctrines, or 
most chiefly to the expression of devotional senti- 
ments and feelings in private, social, or public wor- 
ship. Distributing the matter here alluded to 
under four heads, we shall have : — 

1. An examination of the prejudicial opinion, 
grounded on some remarks by Dr. Johnson, to the 
effect that sacred subjects are unfit for poetry, nay, 
generally incapable of being combined with it. 

2. The qualities requisite to give to authors and 
hymns a title to acknowledged excellence. 

3. An estimate of the comparative merits of 



XVI INTRODUCTION. 

some of the more celebrated composers of this 
class; and, 

4. A consideration of the claims of Montgomery 
to his recognised rank as a hymnologist. 

I. In proceeding to rebut the ignorant assump- 
tion of the incompatibility of poetry with devotion, 
Montgomery says : — " It is true that there is a 
great deal of religious verse, which, as poetry, is 
worthless ; but it is equally true that there is a 
great deal of genuine poetry associated with pure 
and undefiled religion. With men of the world, 
however, to whom religion is an abomination, all 
poetry associated with it loses caste^ and becomes 
degraded beyond redemption by that which most 
exalts it in the esteem of those who really know 
what they judge. 

" But the prejudice alluded to is not confined to 
skeptics and profligates ; many well-meaning peo- 
ple, who never took the trouble to inquire anything 
about the matter, in perfect simplicity believe this 
slander against the two most excellent gifts which 
God has conferred on intelligent and immortal man, 
upon the authority of Dr. Johnson. Let us see 
what that authority is. In his Life of Waller 
occurs the following passage : — ' It has been the 
frequent lamentation of good men that verse has 
been too little applied to the purposes of worship, 
and many attempts have been made to animate de- 
votion by pious poetry ; that they have very seldom 
attained their end is sufficiently known, and it may 



INTTRODUCTION. XVU 

not be improper to inquire why they have miscar- 
ried. Let no pious ear be offended if I advance, 
in opposition to many authorities, that poetical de- 
votion cannot often please. The doctrines of re- 
ligion may indeed be defended in a didactic poem ; 
and he who has the happy power of arguing in 
verse, will not lose it because his subject is sacred. 
A poet may describe the beauty and grandeur of 
nature, the flowers of the spring, and the harvests 
of autumn, the vicissitudes of the tide, and the re- 
volutions of the sky, and praise his Maker in lines 
which no reader shall lay aside. The subject of 
the disputation is not piety, but the motives to pie- 
ty; that of the description is not Grod, but the 
works of God. Contemplative piety, or the inter- 
course between Grod and the human soul, cannot be 
poetical. Man admitted to implore the mercy of 
his Creator, and plead the merits of his Redeem- 
er, is already in a higher state than poetry can 
confer. 

' The essence of poetry is invention ; such inven- 
tion as, by producing something unexpected, sur- 
prises and delights. The topics of devotion are 
few, and, being few, are universally known ; but 
few as they are, they can be made no more ; they 
can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, 
and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry 
pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful in the 
mind than things themselves afford. This effect 
proceeds from the display of those parts of nature 



XVm INTRODUCTION. 

whicli attract, and the concealment of those that 
repel the imagination ; but religion must be shown 
as it is ; suppression and addition equally corrupt 
it ; and such as it is, it is known already. From 
poetry the reader justly expects, and from good 
poetry always obtains, the enlargement of his com- 
prehension and the elevation of his fancy ; but this 
is rarely to be hoped for by Christians from metri- 
cal devotion. Whatever is great, desirable, or tre- 
mendous, is comprised in the name of the Supreme 
Being. Omnipotence cannot be exalted ; infinity 
cannot be amplified ; perfection cannot be im- 
proved. The employments of pious meditation are 
faith, thanksgiving, repentance, and supplication. 
Faith, invariably uniform, cannot be invested by 
fancy with decorations. Thanksgiving, though the 
most joyful of all holy effusions, yet addressed to a 
Being without passions, is confined to few modes, 
and is to be felt rather than expressed. Repent- 
ance, trembling in the presence of the Judge, is 
not at leisure for cadences and epithets. Supplica- 
tion to man may difi'use itself through many topics 
of persuasion ; but supplication to God can only 
cry for mercy. Of sentiments purely religious, it 
will be found that the most simple expression is 
the most sublime. Poetry loses its lustre and its 
power, because it is applied to the decoration of 
something more excellent than itself All that 
pious verse can do is to help the memory, and de- 
light the ear : and for these purposes it may be 



INTRODUCTION. XIX 

very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind. 
The ideas of Christian theology are too simple for 
eloquence, too sacred for fiction, and too majestic 
for ornament ; to recommend them by tropes and 
figures, is to modify by a concave mirror the side- 
real hemisphere.' 

One cannot but be amused to imagine how indig- 
nantly this wisp of dazzling fallacies and solemn 
truisms would have been dispersed, had they been 
brought within the scope of the powerful apprehen- 
sion of the critic by any other person. Nor can we 
fail to remember, that the persons who were for- 
merly most prone to adduce the dogmata against the 
alliance of Religion with " Poetry, the eldest, the 
rarest, and the most excellent of the fine arts," 
were almost as commonly the stoutest advocates 
for the influence of rhetoric and music — if not also 
for the merely esthetic achievements of architecture, 
statuary, and painting, as auxiliaries to Religion : 
and this even Avhen they did not also avow their 
own sources of Polyhymnic idolatry in the inharmo- 
nious and unedifying strains of Sternhold and Hop- 
kins. And " the sum of Dr. Johnson's argument," 
says Montgomery, " amounts to this, ' that contem- 
plative piety, or the intercourse between God and 
the human soul, cannot be poetical ;' and in the 
sense in which he employs the words poetry and 
-poetical^ this may be readily admitted ; but that 
sense is imperfect ; for it is limited to the style, 
rather than comprehending the spirit, of poetry, a 



XX INTRODUCTION. 

distinction quite as allowable as his own, between 
poetry and motives to piety. He says, the essence 
of poetry is invention ;' his own romance of Kasselas 
is a poem on this vague principle. Poetry must be 
verse, and all the ingenuity of man cannot supply 
a better definition. Every thing else that may be 
claimed as essemtial to good poetry, is 7iot peculiar 
to it, but may be associated, occasionally at least, 
with prose. Prose, on the other hand, cannot be 
changed into verse, without ceasing to be prose. 
It is true, according to common parlance, that poetry 
may be prosaic, that is, it may have the ordinary 
qualities of prose, though it be in metre ; and prose 
may be poetical, that is, it may be invested with 
all the ordinary qualities of poetry, except metre. 
There is reason, as well as usage, in the conven- 
tional simplicity which distinguishes prose, and the 
conventional ornament which is allowed to verse ; 
but gorgeous ornament is no more essential to 
verse, than naked simplicity is essential to prose. 
This, however, is a subject which cannot be dis- 
cussed here ; the assertion of the fact (and it can- 
not be contradicted), is sufficient to prove that there 
must be, in the compass of human language, a style 
suitable for ' contemplative piety' in verse, as well 
as in prose ; consequently, there may be devotional 
poetry, capable of animating the soul in its inter- 
course with Grod, and suitable for expressing its 
feelings, its fears, its hopes, and its desires. Of 
course, this species of poetry will not parade inven- 



INTllODUCTION. XXI 

tion, for the purpose of ' producing something un- 
expected, which surprises and delights ;' it will not 
be ' invested by fancy with decorations ;' it will 
not attempt to exalt Omnipotence, amplify infinity, 
or improve perfection ; but to ' sentiments purely 
religious', it tvill give ' the most simple expression,' 
which will also be ' the most sublime,' and certainly 
not the less poetical on that account. Its topics 
will be ' few, and, being few,' will be ' universally 
known,' — an inestimable advantage in this kind of 
verse, because, if properly worded (and more is not 
required), they will be instantly understood, and 
impressively felt, according to the predisposition 
of the reader's mind, in all their force and tender- 
ness of meaning. If nothing can be poetry which 
is not elevated above pure prose, by ' decorations 
of fancy, tropes, figures, and epithets,' many of the 
finest passages, in the finest poems which the world 
has ever seen, must be outlawed, and branded with 
the ignominy of being prose." 

" It is begging the' question," continues Mont- 
gomery, " to say, that ' man admitted to implore 
the mercy of his Creator, and plead the merits of 
his Redeemer, is already in a higher state than po- 
etry can confer.' He is; but what of that? he 
must follow the counsel of the prophet : ' Take with 
you wojrlSj and turn unto the Lord : say unto 
Him^ Take away all iniquity, and receive us gra- 
ciously, so will we render the calves of our lips. 
Asshur shall not save us ; we will not ride upon 



XXn INTRODUCTION. 

horses, neither will we say any more to the work 
of our hands — Ye are bur gods: for in Thee the 
fatherless findeth mercy' (Hosea, xiv., 2-3). Here 
is a prayer, dictated by the Spirit of God Himself, 
which is verse in the original, and ought to be ren- 
dered into verse when it would appear to be poetry, 
not of the simplest and severest, but of the loftiest 
and most embellished style : and does poetry here 
' lose its lustre and power, because it is applied to 
the decoration of something better than itself?' 
Our critic says, * The employments of pious medi- 
tation ?i\'Q faith^ thanksgiving^ rejjentance, and sup- 
plication.'' He who denies that there can be a 
strain of poetry suited to the expression of each of 
these, in the most perfect manner, without either 
extravagance or impiety, must be prepared to deny 
that there is poetry in those very passages of the 
Psalms, in which, according to the judgment of all 
ages since they were written, there may be found 
the greatest sublimity and pathos." * 

The volume to which these sentiments are pre- 
fixed, comprises " selections inverse on sacred sub- 
jects," from one hundred and fifty English poets, 
many of whom, it must be admitted, have no other 
title to the special epithet of " Christian," than be- 
cause they have occasionally shown themselves well 
aware that their best strains might be surely de- 
rived from, and, as certainly, elevated by, religious 

* Introductory Essay to the Christian Poet. — 1827. 



INTRODUCTION. XXUl 

subjects : but, of course, many others have holier 
and higher aims ; and have succeeded accordingly. 
II. But from the Christian Poet's defence of the 
use of verse in the service of religion in general, 
we proceed to his remarks on that form of it which 
is more particularly adapted to the service of the 
sanctuary. " A hymn," says Montgomery, *' ought 
to be as regular in its structure as any other poem ; 
it should have a distinct subject, and that subject 
should be simple, not complicated : so that what- 
ever skill or labour might be required in the author 
to develope his plan, there should be little or none 
required on the part of the reader to understand 
it. Consequently, a hymn must have a beginning, 
middle, and end. There should be a manifest gra- 
dation in the thoughts, and their mutual depend- 
ence should be so percej)tible, that they could not 
be transposed without injuring the unity of the 
piece ; every line carrying forward the connection, 
and every verse adding a well-proportioned limb to 
a symmetrical body. The reader should know 
when the strain is complete, and be satisfied, as at 
the close of an air in music ; while defects and su- 
perfluities should be felt by him as annoyances in 
whatever part they might occur. The practice of 
many good men in framing hymns, has been quite 
the contrary. They have begun apparently with 
the only idea in their mind at the time ; another, 
with little relationship to the former, has been forced 
upon them by a refractory rhyme ; a third became 



XXIV INTRODUCTION 

necessary to eke out a verse, a fourth to begin one , 
and so on, till having compiled a sufficient number 
of stanzas of so many lines, and lines of so many 
syllables, the operation has been suspended ; where- 
as it might, with equal consistency, have been con- 
tinued to any imaginable length, and the tenth or 
ten thousandth link might have been struck out, 
or changed places with any other, without the 
slightest infraction of the chain ; the whole being a 
series of independent verses, collocated as they 
came, and the burden a canto of phrases, figures, 
and ideas, the common property of every writer who 
had none of his own, and, therefore, found in the 
works of each, unimproved, if not unimpaired, from 
generation to generation. Such rhapsodies may be 
sung from time to time, and keep alive devotion al- 
ready kindled ; but they leave no trace in the me- 
mory, make no impression on the heart, and fall 
through the mind as sounds glide through the ear, 
— pleasant it may be in their passage, but never re- 
turning to haunt the imagination in retirement, or 
in the multitude of the thoughts to refresh the soul. 
Of how contrary a character, how transcendently 
superior in value, as well as influence, are those 
hymns, which, once heard, are remembered without 
effort, remembered involuntarily, yet remembered 
with renewed and increasing delight at every re- 
vival ! It may be safely affirmed, that the perma- 
nent favorites in every collection are those which, 
in the requisites before mentioned, or for some 



INTRODUCTION. XXV 

other peculiar excellence, are distinguished from 
the rest. Authors who devote their talents to the 
glory of God and the salvation of men, ought 
surely to take as much pains to polish and perfect 
their offerings of this kind, as secular and profane 
poets bestow upon their works. " The faults in or- 
dinary hymns are vulgar phrases, low words, hard 
words, technical terms, inverted construction, 
broken syntax, barbarous abbreviations that make 
our beautiful English horrid even to the eye, bad 
rhymes, or no rhymes where rhymes are expected, 
but above all, numbers without cadence. A line is no 
more metre because it contains a certain concate- 
nation of syllables, than so many crotchets and 
quavers pricked at random, would constitute a bar 
of music. The syllables in every division ought to 
* ripple like a rivulet,' one producing another as its 
natural effect, while the rhythm of each line, falling 
into the general stream at its proper place, should 
cause the verse to flow in progressive melody, deep- 
ening and expanding like a river to the close ; or, 
to change the figure, each stanza should be a poet- 
ical tune, played down to the last note. Such sub- 
servience of every part to the harmony of the whole 
is required in all other legitimate poetry, and why 
it should not be observed in that which is worthiest 
of all possible pre-eminence, it would be difficult to 
say ; why it is so rarely found in hymns, may be 
accounted for from the circumstances already 
stated, that few accomplished poets have enriched 
B 



XXVI INTRODUCTION. 

their mother tongue with strains of this de- 
scription."* 

III. Among English hymnologists the two most 
prominent names are undoubtedly those of Watts 
and Wesley; though there are others that enjoy a 
proximate, and perhaps a few, in connection with 
single compositions, even a higher celebrity. " Dr. 
Watts," says Montgomery, " may almost be called 
the inventor of hymns in our language ; for he so 
far departed from all precedent, that few of his 
compositions resemble those of his forerunners; 
while he so far established a precedent to all his 
successors, that none have departed from it other- 
wise than according to the peculiar turn of mind in 
the writer, and the style of expressing Christian 
truths employed by the denomination to which he 
belonged. Dr. Watts himself, though a conscien- 
tious dissenter, is so entirely catholic in his hymns, 
that it cannot be discovered from any of these, so 
far as we can recollect, that he belonged to any par- 
ticular sect ; hence, happily for his fame — or rather, 
it ought to be said, happily for the Church of 
Christ — portions of his psalms and hymns have 
been adopted in most places of worship where con- 
gregational singing prevails. It might be expected 
that, in the first models of a new species of poetry, 
there would be many flaws and imperfections, which 
later practitioners would discern and avoid. Such, 

* InProductory Essay to Christian Psalmist. — 1825, 



INTRODUCTION. XXVU 

indeed, are too abundant in Dr. Watts's psalms and 
hymns ; and the worst of all is, that his authority 
stands so high with many of his imitators, that, 
while his faults and defects are most faithfully 
adopted, his merits are unapproachable by them. 
The faults are principally prosaic phraseology, 
rhymes worse than none, and none where good ones 
are absolutely wanted to raise the verse upon its 
feet, and make it go, according to the saying, ' on 
all-fours; ' though, to do the Doctor justice, the 
metre is generally free and natural, when his lines 
want every other qualification of poetry. It is a 
great temptation to the indolence of hymn-writers, 
that the quartrain measures have been so often used 
by Dr. Watts, without rhyme in the first and third 
lines. He himself confessed that this was a de- 
fect ; and though some of the most beautiful hymns 
are upon this model, if the thing itself be not a 
fault, it is the cause of half the faults that may be 
found in inferior compositions — negligence, feeble- 
ness, and prosing. 

" Next to Dr. Watts, as a hymn-writer, undoubt- 
edly stands the Rev- Charles Wesley. He was 
probably the author of a greater number of com- 
positions of this kind, with less variety of matter 
and manner, than any other man of genius that can 
be named. Excepting his ' Short Hymns on Pas- 
sages of Scripture,' which of course make the whole 
tour of Bible literature, and are of very unequal 
merit — Christian experience, from the deeps of 



XXVlll INTRODUCTION. 

affliction, through all the gradations of doubt, fear, 
desire, faith, hope, expectation, to the transports of 
perfect love, in the very beams of the beatific 
vision — Christian experience furnishes him with 
everlasting and inexhaustible themes ; and it must 
be confessed that he has celebrated them with an 
affluence of diction and a splendour of colouring 
rarely surpassed. At the same time, he has in- 
vested them with a power of truth, and endeared 
them both to the imagination and the affections, 
with a pathos which makes feeling conviction, and 
leaves the understanding little to do but to acquiesce 
in the decisions of the heart. As the poet of 
Methodism, he has sung the doctrines of the gospel, 
as they are expounded among that people, dwelling 
especially on the personal appropriation of the 
words of eternal life to the sinner, or the saint, as 
the test of his actual state before God, and admit- 
ting nothing less than the full assurance of faith as 
the privilege of believers." * 

This is just and generous praise ; but it has 
always struck me as being less than its subject is 
fairly entitled to, in two or three particulars. In 
the first place, it may be questioned whether or not 
the wider prevalence of the hymns of Dr. Watts, 
as compared with those of Charles Wesley, be 
mainly due to the more unsectarian character of the 
former — may it not possibly be that they rather 

* Christian Psalmist. 



INTRODUCTION. XXIX 

coincide, negatively at least, with the doctrines of a 
much larger sect, or with those of several sects ? 
In the second place, the merit attributed to " the 
poet of Methodism," as having sung, however suc- 
cessfally, " the doctrines of the gospel as they are 
expounded among that people," is liable to be taken 
equivocally, as meaning something that may be 
more or less than exactly scriptural. I merely hint 
at these points. But there is a third ; I mean the 
poetical superior iUj of the hymns of Charles Wes- 
ley to those of Dr. Watts, whether we take for com- 
parison the whole of them, as they appear in ordi- 
nary collections, or select single specimens from 
each, upon which it would be cowardice in me not 
to insist. But both these " sweet singers " have 
faults of versification, and some epithets and ex- 
pressions of questionable propriety. Is it proper 
to point out these imperfections ? Ought they to 
be removed % Both these questions are important. 
The worse than thankless reception of the judicious 
and temperate re^dew of the Wesleyan Hymn Book 
by one of the preachers of the connexion in Eng- 
land * affords small encouragement to answer the 
first question with a practical affirmative ; while, in 
the preface to the very volume now in the reader's 
hand, we have something like a formal and authori- 
tative negative reply to the latter question. 

As it is one main object of this Introduction to 

* "Wesleyan Hymnology, by the Rev. W. P. Burgess. 
1846. 



XXX INTRODUCTION. 

present an abstract of the opinions of our author, 
as enunciated in three essays which are merely 
named in the Preface to his " Original Hymns,'- I 
must briefly allude to Montgomery's estimate of the 
metrical piety of another of his predecessors. No 
two individuals could be more unlike in their origin, 
or more dissimilar in their natural character, and 
their early history, than the Rev. John Newton and 
William Cowper ; and yet, through the signal opera- 
tion of divine grace, they not only became, after 
their equally remarkable conversion to God, singu- 
larly of one spirit in their life and doctrine — " one 
in Christ Jesus " — but they have left, in the " 01- 
ney Hymns," an enduring monument of their friend- 
ship and piety. These earnest productions, even 
where most clearly marked by the strong opinions 
of the poet-preacher, or most deeply tinged with the 
morbid melancholy of the preacher-poet, are justly 
regarded as a precious legacy to the Church of 
Christ ; and few are the modern collections of verse 
adapted for congregational singing which do not 
contain some specimens of them. In allusion to two 
large classes of these hymns, viz., those on portions 
of the Old and New Testaments, and those of an ex- 
perimental character, the essayist anticipates and 
answers a question which must often have presented 
itself to others — " Are such compositions fit to be 
sung in great congregations, consisting of all classes 
of saints and sinners ? " It must be frankly an- 
swered with respect to the far greater proportion — 



INTRODUCTION. XXXI 

No ! except upon the principle, that whatever may 
be read by such an assembly may also be nmg. 
On no ground can either the reading or chaunting 
of the Psalms from the Common Prayer Book of 
the Church of England, or the singing of authorised 
versions of the same be justified, except on this — 
namely, that these are subjects to be impressed 
upon the minds and memories of the people, for 
individual application by themselves (when they can 
be persuaded to make it) ; but generally, for in- 
struction, warning, reproof, correction, and exam- 
ple — in reality as means of grace. The part which 
a congregation of professing Christians can gener- 
ally take in the routine of divine service — in read- 
ing, praying, responding, or singing — is a subject 
(considering what the real usage is) almost too 
awful to think upon in any other view than the 
foregoing. Confining himself to this point of justi- 
fication alone, the writer of these remarks ventures 
to add, that, whereas singing is only one of the 
forms of utterance which God has given to man, 
not which man has invented, any otherwise than he 
may be said to have invented speech by the faculty 
which God gave him to do so — whatever a man 
may, without sin, recite with his lips, in the house 
of God, he may also sing^ when the same subjects 
or sentiments are modelled into verse, or set forth 
in numerous prose, like the translated Psalms and 
other poetical parts of Holy Writ suitable for 
chaunting." * * * " This volume of Olney 



INTRODUCTION. 



Hymns ought to be for ever dear to the Christian 
public as an unprecedented memorial in respect to 
its authors of the power of divine grace. Those 
may disparage the poetry of Cowper's Hymns who 
hate or despise the doctrines of the Gospel ; they 
are, however, worthy of him, and honourable to 
his Christian profession. These first-fruits of his 
muse, after she had been baptized — but we must 
drop the fictitious being, and say rather, after he 
had been baptized ' with the Holy Grhost and with 
fire,' will ever be precious (independent of their 
other merits) as the transcripts of his happiest feel- 
ings, the memorials of his walk with God, and his 
daily experience (amidst conflict and discourage- 
ments), of the consoling power of that religion, in 
which he \2^^ found peace, and often enjoyed peace 
to a degree that passed understanding."* How 
exactly do these terms also characterise the author 
of these " Original Hymns." Indeed, I have 
transcribed the closing portion of the foregoing- 
extract for the purpose of adding that there has 
been no man of genius between whom and Mont- 
gomery the resemblance is so strong as the bard of 
Olney. " Lamented Cowper ! in thy steps I tread," 
&c., was the apostrophic language of the author of 
the " West Indies ; " and, assuredly, not only in their 
common abhorrence of slavery, and their similar 
exemplification of the influences of evangelical re- 
ligion, but in the Christian tone of their larger 

*"• Introductory Essay to Ohiey Hymns, 1829, 



INTRODUCTION. XXXlll 

works, the simplicity and purity of their lives, and 
especially in the chaste and spiritual character of 
their beautiful hymns, the two Christian poets alike 
demonstrate that their inspiration flowed from the 
source indicated by the angelic messenger " who 
touch'd Isaiah's hallowed lips with fire." 

On grounds like those indicated in the foregoing 
remarks, not only have the hymns to which they 
specifically refer, but those in other collections, 
been exposed to the emendations of editors. 
Among the most obviously defensible of these in- 
terferences with an author's genuine text, are those 
which go to remove or qualify expressions which 
stretch perilously near, even if they lie really 
within the bounds of allowable phraseology. And 
here, I allude not to the assertion of those trans- 
cendant attainments of Christian assurance, holi- 
ness, and exaltation, about which the soberest 
professors of religion sometimes differ, but rather 
to those bold appropriations of the sensuous lan- 
guage of Solomon's Song on the one hand, and of 
the mysterious s^'^mbolisms of the Revelation of 
St. John on the other, which none but the most 
fanciful or the most fearless versifiers would now- 
adays adopt. At the same time, the unwarrantable 
liberties sometimes taken with favourite hymns, by 
incompetent parties, should suggest caution in this 
kind of dealing.* 

* I have just seen a new and elegantly printed collec- 
tion of Hymns for Public Worship, the editor of which 



XXXIV INTRODUCTION. 

Notwithstanding, however, some discouraging in- 
dications, and the conviction that most parties 
would much sooner assent to a proposed revisal of 
the " authorised version " of the Holy Scriptures 
than to any alteration in the text of their respective 
Hymn Books, I humbly submit that the right of 
any man, or any sect of men, to adopt their own 
phraseology in devotional singing, is indisputable, 
at least under the following limitations : — 

1. Parties adopting the compositions of a living 
author, are plainly bound to conform to the terms 
on which he may choose to permit such use, either 
during his own lifetime, or so long as his copyright 
exists. 

2. The publication of an altered hymn, under 
the name of the original author, and without ac- 
knowledgment of such alteration, is worse than dis- 
honest. It is the clandestine insertion of a spurious 
bud in a stalk of reputed excellence. 

3. Emendations of a literary nature ought gene- 
rally to coincide with the original sentiment : in 
other words — should be what it may be presumed 
would have been the expression of the author him- 
self had he possessed the abilities, or could he have 
anticipated the position of his editor. Hence, the 
most allowable alterations in old hymns, are the 

takes credit for not altering the productions of living 
authors ; while he explains that he has so altered a striking 
conaposition by an American author, as to justify him in 
giving the result under his own name. 



INTRODUCTION. XXXV 

correction of obvious mistakes, and the supplanta- 
tion of harsh . or obsolete terms : the most repre- 
hensible, those which purposely vitiate or subvert 
the primary meaning of the poet. These remarks 
are, of course, made with special reference to the 
unauthorised version of compositions intended to 
be sung ; in other respects, the rights and usages 
of editorial interference apply to hymns as to other 
kinds of verse. 

The least hazardous way of dealing with unac- 
ceptable passages in an otherwise favourite hymn, 
is undoubtedly by simply omitting the verses in 
which they occur. This, I believe, would be the 
direction of Montgomery himself in such cases. 
He has indeed acted largely upon this principle in 
" The Christian Psalmist," where, it must be ad- 
mitted, he has not less frequently exercised that 
reformatory process so emphatically deprecated in 
the Preface to his own Hymns. The plea of cor- 
rection and improvement^ irrefragable as it may be, 
when applied to his judicious touch, is very liable 
to be urged or assumed with equal success by the 
most dishonest or incompetent emendators. Still, 
as I have said, since every person ought to be 
allowed to use, and in a country where the exercise 
of opinion and action in this matter is so little re- 
stricted as in the United States, will select the 
most agreeable phraseology, even the perilous privi- 
lege of altering accredited hymns, as the alternative 
of losing for a single expression, or perhaps a single 



XXXVl INTRODUCTION. 

word, the pleasure and the profit of singmg a strain 
which is at once elegant, instructive, and devo- 
tional. 

lY. We must now advert to the claims of Mont- 
gomery to the title and reputation of a hymnolo- 
gist. In the work last quoted, he says, " One of 
the most precious uses of the sacred oracles is their 
infinite capability of personal application to the 
mind and the heart, the circumstances and duties 
of the Christian in every state of life and every 
frame of spirit." Hence, " The most illiterate per- 
son, who understands his Bible, will easily under- 
stand the most elegant or emphatic expression of 
all the feelings which are common to all ; and, in- 
stead of being passive under them, when they are 
excited at particular seasons, he will avail himself 
of the songs put into his mouth, and sing them 
with gladness and refreshment, as if they were his 
own. Then, though like Milton's, his genius can 
ascend to the heaven of heavens, or, like Shak- 
speare's, search out the secrets of Nature through 
all her living combinations, blessed is the bard 
who employs his resources thus ; who, from the 
fulness of his own bosom, pours his divinest 
thoughts, in his selectest words, into the bosoms of 
his readers, and enables them to appreciate the rich 
communications to their personal exigencies, with- 
out robbing him or hindering others from partaking 
of the same abundant fountain of human inspira- 
tion — a fountain flowing like the oil, at the com- 



INTRODUCTION. XXXVll 

mand of the prophet, from 07ie vessel into as many 
as could be borrowed, without exhausting the first, 
though the whole were filled. If he who pens 
these sentiments knows his own heart, though it 
has deceived him too often to be trusted without 
jealousy, he would rather be the anonymous author 
of a few hymns, which should thus become an im- 
perishable inheritance to the people of God, than 
bequeathe another epic poem to the world, which 
should rank his name with Homer, Virgil, and ' our 
greater Milton.' After these strong words, but 
more especially after the freedom and severity 
which he has exercised in judging the performances 
of his predecessors, the author may offer, with many 
misgivings, the hymns in the following collection as 
his own. Tried by the standard which he has 
himself set up, every one of them would be found 
wanting." * The modest ambition and humble 
disclaimer embodied in the preceding sentences, 
characteristic as they are of the writer, will not be 
allowed to outweigh the estimate which the world 
and the church have long since formed of the man 
of genius and the Christian poet. 

In reference to the metrical compositions used in 
Christian worship, the poorest of them are generally 
as good as the taste of those who sing them ; in- 
deed, paradoxical as it may seem, more persons may 
easily be found capable of writing middling hymns 

* Christian Psalmist 



XXXVlll INTRODUCTION. 

than of appreciating excellence in the best. Ministers 
of religion themselves, when not compilers,* are fre- 
quently among the stiffest advocates for a severe sen- 
tence on him who shall venture to t/iink out fJiemean- 
ing of the ivords of what he sings, as if the piety were 
in the tune, and the edification in the aim of this 
elevating act of devotion. Let, however, any com- 
petent person carefully and candidly collate these 
" Original Hymns," with the stringent canons of 
composition promulgated by the author in the pas- 
sages above cited, and then let him try by the same 
test an equal number of the compositions of a 
similar character by other modern poets ; the result 
will probably be both instructive and conclusive. 

Although labour is not genius, even in literature, 
and Montgomery would probably be among the 
foremost to deny that any one could acquire the 
" faculty divine " of the true poet by a mere ap- 

* Among these compilers are many clergymen of the 
Church of England, who, taking advantage of the am- 
biguous and practically inoperative relation of the law to 
what shall be sung in consecrated places, have not only 
superseded the use of the old and new versions of the 
Psalms, as they, perhaps on not mvich better authority, 
have supjjlanted each other, by hymns of an evangelical 
and devotional tone, but they have made and printed 
selections suited to their own tastes respectively ; thus 
taking advantage — wisely, as many persons think — of the 
only apparent outlet for individualising the nonconformity 
of taste and feeling in this delightful branch of divine 
worship. 



INTRODUCTION. XXXIX 

prenticeship to verse-making, lie would, I am sure, 
be equally the first to lay stress on the supreme 
importance of cultivating any talent in order to its 
complete efficiency. Many persons who read his 
hymns, and other pieces, so smooth in metre, so 
sweet in their cadences, so natural and exact in 
phraseology, may suppose they are struck oiF at a 
heat, in moments of inspiration — in plain terms, 
that they are produced with as little labour as they 
are read. Nothing can be farther from the fact ; 
for, whatever may have been the mode of catching and 
fixing first thoughts, the whole has been submitted 
to frequent and careful elaboration or revision. As 
it was my privilege to transcribe for the press the 
greater part of the matter of the following pages 
(of course, without the alteration of a single word 
of the author's final corrections), I may be pre- 
sumed to know something of the process alluded 
to, from the character of his manuscripts, most of 
which presented abundant evidence of the limce, 
labor; and in addition to this palimpsest appear- 
ance of the original copies, they were sometimes 
multiplied in variorum forms, one hymn, I recol- 
lect, existing in not fewer than ten difi"erent ver- 
sions ! I mention this fact to show to young 
persons, especially such as may happen to be gifted 
with the " fatal facility " of religious verse-making, 
how great a price even a veteran hymnologist feels 
himself bound to pay for distinguished success. 
In the language, not of hyperbole but of truth, 



Xl INTRODUCTION. 

it may be said that the hymns of the Sheffield poet 
present evidence of every variety of the excellence 
which he has pointed out in others. In '' catho- 
licity," they are not inferior to those of Dr. Watts; 
in " daring and victorious flights " of spiritual 
aspiration, they sometimes rival those of Charles 
Wesley ; they are " very pleasing," like Addison's, 
not only when, like his, they celebrate the blessings 
of " the God of Providence," but because " the 
God of Grace " is " more distinctly recognised in 
them ; " equally with Doddridge's " they shine in 
the beauty of holiness ; " with Toplady's, " there is 
in some of them a peculiarly ethereal spirit ; " 
while often, like Beddome's, a single idea is in- 
geniously brought out, " not with a mere point at 
the end, but with the terseness and simplicity of a 
Greek epigram ; " and all this is heightened and 
deepened by the affecting conviction, that the best 
compositions of Montgomery, as of Cowper, " are 
principally communings with his own heart, or 
avowals of Christian experience; as such, they 
are frequently applicable to every believer's feel- 
ings, and touch unexpectedly the most secret springs 
of joy and sorrow, faith, fear, hope, love, trials de- 
spondency, and triumph." 

It would be easy to adduce, from the book before 
us, examples of each of the foregoing forms of 
hymnic excellence, and perhaps also occasional in- 
stances of failure ; for what human production is 
perfect ? But I am — and without hesitation I con- 



INTRODUCTION. xli 

fess it — too genuine and generous an admirer of 
the poetry of my venerable friend, to be implicitly 
trusted either as a discriminating or an impartial 
eclectic in such an undertaking. I shall therefore 
conclude this essay with a few miscellaneous re- 
marks. Allusion has already been made to the 
" Songs of Zion ; " one of these, commencing 
" Hail to the Lord's annointed ! " will be found at 
page 276 of this volume ; it is perhaps one of the 
most elegant and mellifluous imitations of a psalm 
in the English language. Dr. Adam Clarke, who 
has quoted it at length in his learned Commentary 
on the Holy Scriptures, says the author " has seized 
the spirit and exhibited some of the principal 
beauties of the .Hebrew bard." The solemn senti- 
ments condensed in Hymn 238, point to the fact 
that " Eternity ! " whether the direct or casual sub- 
ject of the poet's verse, seems to have been an 
ever-present reality to his mind, influencing by the 
awfulness of its collateral bearings and its final 
issues, all his meditations. The several hymns on 
the Bible, the Sabbath, the advent of the Messiah, 
and the preaching of the Gospel, are exceedingly 
appropriate and beautiful. The same may be said 
of several of the compositions which are rather of 
a didactic, exegetical, or apostrophic, than of a 
strictly devotional character, and which are better 
adapted to be silently treasured up in the memory 
than uttered in vocal harmony. Of these, the 
verses on •' Prayer," Hymn 62, have probably been 



Xlii INTRODUCTION. 

more admired by religious people in England, and 
form to a greater extent one of the " Pleasures of 
Memory," among old and young, than any modern 
essay of rhyme of a similar class. A considerable 
number were, as already intimated, composed on 
special occasions. If any apology were necessary 
for the perpetuation of these, it might surely be 
found in their titles respectively ; for, however 
" few and far between " in their anticipated recur- 
rence jubilees and centenaries may be, these ex- 
quisite mementos of their having been^ will only 
be repudiated, if at all, by sterner heads and 
harder hearts than those which were in the first 
instance gratefully affected by them ; to say 
nothing of the fact, familiar to most pious people, 
that poetical forms of " sound words," when em- 
bodying portions of scripture truth, even for fugi- 
tive purposes, are rarely allowed to perish in the 
first using. 

It need scarcely be added that the entire matter 
of this book, from the first page to the last — from 
the opening hymn of praise to the " Thrice Holy " 
Lord Grod of Hosts, to the corresponding aspira- 
tions of the closing Doxology — is strikingly evan- 
gelical ; indeed, so complete is the inter-penetra- 
tion of this hallowing element, that while there is 
hardly a single verse which may not be consistently 
appropriated by any denomination of orthodox 
Christian worshippers, there is not one that can be 
fairly pressed into any service incompatible with 



INTRODUCTION. xliii 

the doctrine of " salvation through the blood of the 
Lamb." 

I owe it to the delicacy of the gentleman with 
whose name and works I have dealt so freely, but 
not inconsiderately, in the foregoing pages, to say 
that, should this Introduction ever meet his eye in 
print, that will be the first intimation he will have 
of its existence. 

G. H. 

Sheffield, March 14, 1853. 



ALPHABETICAL INDEX 



FIRST LINES. 



A. 



A BLESSING on our pastor's head 
According to Thy gracious word . 
A child, a youth, a man 
A child is born, — the birth proclaim 
A child of man, a child of God . 
A children's temple here we build 
Again, on this rejoicing day 
Again our eai's have heard the voice 
A grain of corn an infant's hand 
A hundred years ago, not one 
All glory to the Father be {Doxology) 
All hail ! our Church's Elder dear 
All hearts are open to Thy view 
All hearts to Thee are open here , 
All Thy works, with one accord 
All ye Gentiles, praise the Lord 
Almighty God, in humble prayer 
And did the Son of God appear 
Angels from the realms of glory 
Angels, the first-borii sons of light 



PAQH 

328 

131 

21G 

33 

31 

338 

105 

376 

261 

215 

377 

287 

109 

118 

95 

91 

74 

128 

239 

35 



xlvi 



ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 



Another day, a. day of grace 
A race on earth, a race we run 
Arise and shine, your light is corae 
Around the throne of grace we meet 
As from the winter sky 
Ask, and ye shall receive 
Assembled in Thy house of prayer 
As the heart, with eager looks 
A sure and tried foundation stone 
At every motion of our breath 
A world of sinners once was drown' d 
A year, another year is fled . 



PAGE 

119 
150 
267 
343 
302 

71 
101 

99 
315 
223 

20 
303 



B. 



Behold the Book, whose leaves display 
Behold yon bright array 
Be known to us in breaking bread . 
Blessed be Thy Name .... 
Body and soul to Thee I give . 
Bow every knee at Jesus' name 
Bright and joyful is the morn . 
Brother and friend, with heart and voice 



23 
318 
207 
197 
182 
81 
17 
249 



C. 



Call Jehovah thy salvation 
Children of Zion, know your King 
Come, and behold the works o£ God 
Come from j^our dwellings, girls and boys 
Come in, thou blessed of the Lord 
Come let us go to heaven; — the way 
Come let us sing the song of songs . 
Come on, companions of our way , 
Come see the place where Jesus lay . 
Come to Calvary's holy mountain . 
Come to the Morning Prayer 



148 
240 

91 
360 
153 
120 

92 
156 
129 

61 

84 



ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 



xlvii 



Come to the throne of Grace; — it stands 
Come ye that fear the Lobd 
Command thy blessing from above 
Communion of my Saviour's blood 
Could I command with voice or pen 
Creator, Redeemer, and Spirit of Truth 



PAGE 

115 

38 
122 
132 
140 

22 



D. 



DOXOLOGIES .... 

Daughter of Zion, from the dust 
Dust and ashes, sin and guilt 



871 
241 
168 



Eternity! Eternity! 238 



Fair shines the morning star . 

Faith, Hope, and Charity, — these three 

Fall down ye nations, and adore . 

Father of eternal grace 

Father of glory, God of grace ! 

Father of Jesus Christ our Lord 

Father of light, and life, and love . 

Father of lights ! from whom alone . 

Father ! reveal Thy Son in me 

"Father, Thy will, not mine, be done!" 

Few, few and evil are thy days 

Fight the good fight ; lay hold 

Flowers grow in sweet societies 

" For ever with the Lord 1 " 

Free, though in chains, the mountains stand 

Friend after friend departs 

Food, raiment, dwelling, health, and friends 



269 
167 
275 
189 
317 
105 
307 
149 
167 
182 
214 
161 
295 
281 
157 
359 
207 



xlviii 



ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 



Friends of the poor, the young, the weak 
Full speed along the world's highway . 



PAGE 

332 
211 



G. 



Give glory to the Lord 

Glad was my heart to hear . 

Glory, Father ! be {Doxology) 

Glory to the Father be {Doxology) 

Glory to the Father give . 

God be merciful to me . 

God in His temple let us meet . 

God in the high and holy place 

God is in His holy temple . 

God is my strong salvation . 

God, o'er all supremely bless'd . 

God over all, the sun by day 

God said, "Let there be light" '. 

God the Creator bless'd 

Go to dark Gethsemane . 

Go to the grave in all thy glorious prime 

Go where a foot hath never trod 

Green pastures and clear streams . 



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103 

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378 
855 

104 

10 

110 

192 

340 

368 

341 

11 

64 

32*7 

51 

m 



H. 



Hail, all hail, the King of kings ! 
Hail to the Lord's Anointed ! 
Hallelujah ! heart and voice 
Hallow'd be this humble spot 
Happy the child, who early makes , 
Hark! the song of Jubilee ! . 
Head of Thy Church, her glorious Head! 
Hear me, O Lord ! in my distress . 
Heaven as a tent Thine hand display'd 
Heaven is a place of rest from sin 
He clinib'd the mountain ; and behold! 
Heralds of creation ! crv 



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329 

323 

334 

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154 

1Y9 

313 

225 

62 

12 



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Here young and old, here great and small 

"He saved others," scorners cried 

He that overcomes through Me 

Hid in the rock-cleft, let me stand 

High Priest for sinners, Jesus, Lord ! 

Him wilt Thou keep in perfect peace 

Holy, Holy, Holy Lord . 

Home, kindred, friends, and country, these 

Hosanna be the children's song 

How amiable, how fair .... 

How beautiful the sight 

How many generations dead 

How shall a contrite spirit pray 

How shall we come before the Lord ? 

Humbly, my God, with Thee I walk 



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127 
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199 

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201 
230 

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I build my house upon a rock . 

I cannot call affliction sweet 

I left the God of truth and light 

I love the Lord ; — He lent an ear 

In a garden man was placed 

La a land of strange delight . 

In spirit when I took my flight 

In time of tribulation 

In the beginning, God said " Be ! ' 

In the morning hear my voice 

In the hour of trial . 

In vain the preacher cried "Repent 

Isaac was ransom'd when he lay 

Is summer ended, — harvest past . 

Is this the day that gave me birth? 

I take the journey of a day . 

It is the Lord ! — behold His hand 

I will love the Lord ; for He 



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184 
173 

124 
263 
212 
183 
187 
2 

84 
195 

19 
852 
299 
248 
194 
810 
178 



J. 



Jesus, our best-beloved friend 
Joyful in Thj House of Prayer 
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117 



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L. 



Less than the least of all . 

Let me go, the day is breaking 

Let not the strong, the rich, the wise 

Let songs of praise arise 

Let the land mourn through all its coasts 

"Let there be light: " thus spake the Word 

Lift up thine eyes, afflicted soul! 

Lift up your eyes, look round 

Lift up your heads, ye gates! and wide . 

Lift up your heads, ye gates of brass ! . 

Like Mary, when the angel came 

Lord ! are there eyes that see the sun . 

Lord, for ever at Thy side 

Lord, give us ears to hear 

Lord God, the Holy Ghost 

Loiu), I have put my trust in Thee 

Lord Jesus Christ, the children's Friend . 

Lord, let my prayer like incense rise 

Lord of all power and might ! , 

Lord of Hosts, to Thee we raise 

Lord, teach us how to pray aright . 

Lord, Thou hast been Thy people's rest 

Lord, when we search the human heai-t . 

Love is the theme of saints above . 

" Lovest thou Me ? " I hear my Saviour say 



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361 
309 
266 
181 
301 
136 
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66 
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190 
162 
139 
219 
334 

83 
145 
320 

69 

49 
172 
362 
194 



M. 



Maker, Upholder, Ruler! — ^Thee . 
Mercy and goodness, my God ! 
Mercy alone can meet my case 
Millions within Thy courts have met 
Mine House shall be an House of Prayer 
Moments and minutes, hours and days 
Morning of the Sabbath day . 
My God, beneath Thy watching eye . 
My Son, give me tliine heart, and let 



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176 


. 121 


114 


. 204 


130 


. 210 


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Not by the bi'azen trumpet's voice . 
Not here, as to the prophet's eye . 
Nothing into this world we brought . 
Not in Jerusalem alone . , . . 
Not to the Mount that burn'd with fii-e 
Now in holy convocatiou 
Now Lord of loi'ds, and King of kings 
Now weigh the anchor, hoist the sail 



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o. 



be joyful every nation! 

O come, let us raise 

O for the wisdom from above , 

Of Him the sacred record saith 

O God ! thou art my Gop alone 

God unseen, but not unknown . 

God! we praise Thee, and we own 

Oh! "Yaliant-for-the-Truth!" 

O Lord, our God ! Thy light and truth 

O my soul ! with all thy powers . 

Once more to pay our annual vows . 

Once more to Bethany, — once more 

One human pair, and only one . 

One prayer I have, — all prayers in one 

One song of praise, one voice of prayer 

One thing with all my soul's desire 

On earth we meet again below . 

On his pilgrimage of woe . 

On our span-long pilgrimage . 

On the first Christian Sabbath eve . 

O Spirit of the living God ! . 

O take away this evil heart 

that I knew where I might find 

O Thou in whom we live and move . 

Our Heavenly Father ! hear . 

Our Heavenly Father ! hear our prayer 



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356 

78 

141 

70 

28 

96 

270 

335 

50 

253 

138 

13 

89 

254 

123 

344 

353 

218 

133 

260 

300 

180 

250 

143 

67 



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PAGE 

Our Master, Jesus, reign'd above .... 268 

Our parents, brothers, sisters, friends . . . SS^Z 
Our Saviour's words are, "Watch and Pray" . .165 

Our schools are nurseries below .... 3*72 

Our soul shall magnify the Lord .... 304 

Out of the depths of woe 86 

0! wliat a privilege to kneel 83 

O where shall rest be found 213 



Palms of glory, raiment bright 
Patient prayer has power with God 
Peace that passeth understanding 
People of the living God 
Pour out Thy spirit from on high 
Power from on high, God ! impart 
Praise the Lord through every nation 
Praise the High, the Holy One! 
Praise ye the Lord, from pole to pole ! 
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire . 
Proclaim the year of Jubilee 



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88 

136 

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144 

66 
292 



E. 



Rest from thy labours, rest . 
Return, my soul, unto thy rest 



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S. 



Searcher of hearts! to Thee are known 
Send out thy light and truth, God ! 
Servant of God, well done! 
Sing a new song unto the Lord 
Sing Hallelujah; sing 
Sing we the song of those who stand 
Sleep, weary world, and take thy rest 
Songs of praise the angels sang 
Son of the living God, display . 



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202 


. 312 


202 


252 


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113 



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Sow in the morn thy seed 

Spirit of power and might, behold 

Spring up, well ! sweet fountain, spring ! 

Stand up, and bless the Lord 

Strangers, whence came ye to the West 

Sun, moon, and stars, by day and night 

Sweet is Thy mercy, O my God ! . 



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T. 



Thank and praise Jehovah's name 

The bird that soars on highest wing 

The blessing of a night's repose 

The brightest morning of the year 

The children's angels always view 

The Christian warrior, — see him stand 

The days and years of time are fled 

The days of Paradise were few 

Thee, in the watches of the night 

The end of all things is at hand 

The glorious universe around 

The God of harvest praise 

The God of nature and of grace 

The God of your forefathers praise 

The grace of Jesus Christ our Lord . 

*The grace of Jesus Christ our Lord 

Tlie ground on which this day we stand 

The heathen perish ; — day by day 

The King of Gloiy we proclaim 

The lighthouse founded on a rock 

The Lord is King: — upon His throne 

The Lord is my Shepherd, no want shall I 

The Lord will grace and glory give . 

The morning dawns upon the place 

The morning stars in concert sang 

The mountains shall depart . 

The Name, the Name o'er every name 

The one thing needful be our choice 

The peace of God sui'passing thought 

The poorest of the poor are we 



know 



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339 

209 
358 
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43 
236 

15 
212 
220 
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4 
285 
158 
374 
313 
260 
282 
146 

41 

40 
166 

65 
321 
177 

34 
147 
112 
367 



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The pure and peaceful mind 

"There is a God," all Nature cries 

There is a river pure and bright 

The Sabbath of the Lord 

The scene around me disappears 

The sting of death is sin 

The sunbeams infinitely small . 

The sun clear-shining after showers 

The tender mercies of our Lord 

The tongue, the tongue, with all its power 

The wind that brake the rocks, and rent 

The Word of God, the word of truth 

The world in condemnation lay 

Thine arm, Lord, of old 

Thine eye, Lord God, alone can see . 

This is the day the Lord hath made 

This stone to Thee in faith we lay . 

Thou Father of the fatherless 

Thou, God, art a consuming fire 

Though I walk the downward shade 

Though the fig tree's blossom fail 

Thousands, O Lord of Hosts ! this day . 

Thus far on life's perplexing path 

Thus saith the high and lofty One 

Thus saith the Lord, — " ISly Church, to thee 

Thy glory. Lord, the heavens declare . 

Thy law is perfect, Lord of light! 

Thy throne, O God, in righteousness 

Thy word. Almighty Lord 

Time grown not old with length of years 

To Adam thus Jehovah spake . 

To-day is added to our time . 

To-day the Lord our Shepherd leads 

To God most awful and most high 

To me, though neither voice nor sound 

To me to live, let it be Christ 

To Thee in whom we live and move 

To Thy Temple I repair 

To us the voice of Wisdom cries 



ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 



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Union of faith, and hope, and love 
Upon Thine altar, Lord, I lay . 



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170 



W. 



Walking on the winged wind . . . . 311 

"We bid Thee welcome in the Name .... 324 

Weep, little children, weep ..... 3o4 

Weep no more Zion, dry thy streaming tears . . 224 

We know the condescending grace . . . 126 

We lift our eyes, our hands, to Thee .... 296 

We plan foundations for the dead .... 322 

What are these in bright array ..... 23*7 

What is our life ? — a breath, a span . \ . 163 

What is the thing of greatest pince .... 8 

What is the World ? — a wildering maze . . . 24 

What secret hand at morning-light .... 208 

What shall we ask of God in prayer? ... 6*7 

When Israel, press'd by Pharoah, stood . . . 308 

When Jesus left his Father's throne . . . 346 

When like a stranger on our sphere .... 305 

When men once more were multiplied . . . 21 

When on Sinai's top I see ...... 54 

When the overwhelming waters .... 235 

When those who fear'd the Lord of old . . .152 

When, war on earth suspended .... 63 

Where'er the Patriarch pitch'd his tent ... 39 

Where are the dead ? in heaven or hell ? . . 225 

While many cry in nature's night .... 85 

^Vhile saints and angels, glorious King . . . 366 

While these commands endure 114 

While through this changing world we I'oam . 226 

Why thus, my soul, cast down? .... 81 

Will e'er that Sabbath morning rise . . . 278 

With heart and soul, with mind and might . 342 

With lawless lips, unbridled tongues . . . 350 

With men impossible ! ... , . 30 

With reverence and with godly fear . . . 106 



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With wandering Jacob, let US say . . . .IB 

Words of eternal life to me 24 

Work while it is to-day ! 159 



Y. 

Yea, I will extol Thee 192 

Youth, health, and strengtli are ours to-day 



336 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 



HYMN I. 

" Tkrice Holy ! "—Isaiah vi. 3. 

1 Holy, Holy, Holy Lord, 

God of Hosts ! when heaven and earthy 

Out of darkness at Thy word, 
Issued into glorious birth, 
All Thy works before Thee stood, 
And Thine eye beheld them good. 
While they sang with sweet accord, 
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord ! 

2 Holy, Holy, Holy ! Thee, 
One Jehovah evermore. 

Father, Son, and Spirit ! we, 
Dust and ashes, would adore ; 
Lightly by the world esteem'd. 
From that world by Thee redeemed, 
Sing w^e here with glad accord, 
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord ! 

3 Holy, Holy, Holy ! All 
Heaven's triumphant choirs shall sing. 

When the ransomed nations fall 
At the footstool of their King : 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 



Then shall saints and seraphim, 
Hearts and voices swell one hymn, 
Kound the Throne with full accord, 
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord ! 



HYMN II. 

The Creation and Dissolution of all Things. 

In the beginning, God said '' Be ! " 

And all things were, — heaven, earth, and 
sea : 
God, in the end, once more will say, 

" Perish ! " and all shall pass away. 
But Thou, Lord ! for ever art : 

The orb of Thine eternity 
Is one great whole, without a part ; 

Past, present, future, meet in Thee. 
Convinced of sin, my soul would bend 

Before Thee in the lowest dust ; 
Yet to Thy Throne by prayer ascend. 

With trembling awe and childlike trust. 
look in loving-kindness down 

On a frail worm with Thee at strife ; 
Eternal death were in Thy frown. 

Thy smile will be eternal life ! 



HYMN III. 

God the Creator. 

1 Praise the High, the Holy One ! 
God o'er all, the first, the last 



OKIGINAL HYMNS. 

For He spake, and it was done ; 
He commanded, it stood fast. 

2 At His word, from darkness light, 

Harmony from discord broke ; 
Weakness started into might. 
Beauty out of dust awoke : 

3 Fire and water, air and earth, 

Heard His voice and hush'd their strife 
Death itself, by wondrous birth, 
Grew the parent of all life. 

4 Plant and flower, and herb and tree, 

Sprang spontaneous from the sod ; 
Sun and moon, and land and sea. 
Day and night, beheld their God. 

5 Fishes, fowls upon the wing. 

Beasts, and all that creep or fly. 
Every breathing, moving thing. 
Peopled "forest, flood, and sky. 

6 But while all was fair and good, 

All accordant to His will, 
None their Maker understood. 

Mind and thought were wanting still. 

7 God, His glory to display. 

With His image crown'd the whole, 
Breath'd His Spirit into clay. 
And made man a living soul. 

8 Hallelujah, praise the One 

God o'er all, the first, the last : 
For He spake, and it was done ; 
He commanded, it stood fast. 



OKIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN IV. 

The Olory of God in Creation. 

The God of nature and of grace 

In all His works appears ; 
His goodness through the earth we trace, 

His grandeur in the spheres. 
Behold this fair and fertile globe 

Ky Him in wisdom plann'd ; 
'Twas He who girded, like a robe. 

The ocean round the land. 
Lift to the arch of heaven your eye ; 

Thither His path pursue ; 
His glory, boundless as the sky, 

O'erwhelms the wondering view. 
How excellent, Lord, Thy name 

In all creation's lines ! 
Spread through eternity. Thy fame 

With rising lustre shines. 
These lower works, that swell Thy praise 

High as man's thoughts can tower, 
Are but a portion of Thy ways. 

The hiding of Thy power. 
shouldst Thou rend aside the veil, 

And show thy dwelling-place, 
The souls which thou hast made would fail 

'Twere death to see Thy face. 
Can none behold that face and live ? 

Yea, sinners may draw near : 
The Lord is kind, and will forgive, 

His love shaU cast out fear. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 



8 Millions amidst His presence stand. 
Who feel, while they adore, 
Fulness of joy at His right hand, 
And pleasures evermore. 



HYMN V. 

God all in all. 

Hail, all hail, the King of kings ! 

On His throne of sovereignty, 
By whose will, whose word, all things 

Are, and were, and yet shall be. 

Hail Him, all that move and breathe, 
On His throne of Providence ; 

To His family beneath. 

Life and health diffusing thence. 

Hail Him on His throne of grace, 
Grod our Father reconciled. 

Changing, from our fallen race, 
Many a foe into a child. 

Hail Him on His throne of light, 

O'er His family above. 
From the beatific sight. 

Sending peace, and joy, and love. 

Hail, all hail, the King of kings. 
When on earth He deigns to dwell. 

Heaven into the soul He brings, 
GrOD with us, Immanuel. 



§, ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

6 Come, come ! and for Thy throne, 
King of kings, each heart prepare : 
Keign triumphant, reign alone, 
Lord of lords, for ever there. 



HYMN VI. 

TJie Guilt and Folly of denying God. 

" There is a God/' all Nature cries, 

All Knowledge proves " there is a God : " 

" There is no God," the Fool replies, 
Whose heart is duller than the clod. 

The grateful clod, refreshed with rains, 
Pours flowers along its Maker's path ; 

But the Fool's heart a Fool's remains, 
Untouch'd by love, unmoved by wrath. 

And yet the wretch himself deceives ; 

While fiends believe, and trembling fly, 
He trembles though he disbelieves ; 

And conscience gives his life the lie. 

Can guilt, can madness further go ? 

Yes, his who God in works denies ; 
Whose creed saith " Yes," whose life says 

'' No : " 
Am I more holy, just, and wise ? 

My soul, sink down in shame and grief ; 

So fair without, so foul within ; 
Thy faith is specious unbelief. 

Thy righteousness, self-righteous sin. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

God ! Thou art, Thou surely art, 
And those who truly seek Thee find ; 

Put Thou Thy laws into my heart, 
In mercy write them on my mind. 

Light in Thy light I long to see. 
Thy glory in Thy goodness trace ; 

Ah ! then reveal Thy Son in me. 

Through faith may I be saved by grace. 



HYMN YII. 

The Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace. 

The glorious universe around, 
The heavens with all their train, 

Sun, moon, and stars, are firmly bound, 
In one mysterious chain. 

The earth, the ocean, and the sky, 

To form one world agree. 
Where all that walk, or swim, or fly, 

Compose one family. 

God in creation thus displays 
His wisdom and His might. 

While all His works with all His ways 
Harmoniously unite. 

In one fraternal bond of love, 

One fellowship of mind. 
The saints below, and saints above. 

Their bliss and glory find. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

Here, in their house of pilgrimage, 
Thy statutes are their song ; 

There, through one bright eternal age, 
Thy praises they prolong. 

Lord, may our union form a part 
Of that thrice happy whole. 

Derive its pulse from Thee the Heart, 
Its life from Thee the Soul. 



HYMN YIII. 

Tlie Soul. 

1 What is the thing of greatest price, 

The whole creation round ? 
That, which was lost in Paradise, 
That, which in Christ is found. 

2 The soul of man, — Jehovah's breath ! 

That keeps two worlds at strife ; 
Hell moves beneath to work its death , 
Heaven stoops to give it life. 

3 GrOD, to reclaim it, did not spare 

His well-beloved Son ; 
Jesus, to save it, deign'd to bear 
The sins of all in One. 

4 The Holy Spirit sealed the plan. 

And pledged the blood divine. 
To ransom every soul of man : 
That price was paid for mine. 



OKIGINAL HYMNS. 

And is this treasure borne below 

In earthly vessels frail ; 
Can none its utmost value know, 

Till flesh and spirit fail ? 
Then let us gather round the CrosSj 

This knowledge to obtain, 
Not by the soul's eternal loss, 

But everlasting gain. 



HYMN IX. 

The Temple of the Soul. 

Thus saith the high and lofty One, 

Inhabiting eternity ; 

Earth is My footstool, Heaven My throne, 

What temple will ye build for Me ? 

Eestore Me now Mine own. 

Behold the tem23le of My choice ; 

My dwelling is the humble soul ; 

To make the broken heart rejoice. 

The wounded spirit to make whole : 

Then hearken to My voice. 

Here, Thou high and lofty One, 

Bow down Thine heavens to dweU with me 

Here plant Thy footstool, raise Thy throne, 

Kebuild Thy fallen sanctuary ; 

I yield Thee back Thine own. 

Behold the temple of Thy choice. 

Eternity within my soul ; 

Now make the broken heart rejoice. 

The wounded spirit now make whole : 

Lord ! I have heard Thy voice. 



10 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN X. 

The Earth full of the Goodness of God. 

1 God, in the higli and holy place, 

Looks down upon the spheres ; 
Yet in His providence and grace 
To every eye ap^^ears. 

2 He bows the heavens ; the mountains stand. 

A highway for our God ; 
He walks amidst the desert-sand, 
'Tis Eden where He trod. 

3 The forests in His strength rejoice ; 

Hark ! on the evening breeze, 
As once of old, the Lord God's voice 
Is heard among the trees. W 

4 Here, on the hills, He feeds His herds, 

His flocks on yonder plains ; 
His praise is warbled by the birds ; 
could we catch their strains ! 

5 Mount with the lark, and bear our song 

Up to the gates of light ; 
Or, with the nightingale, prolong 
Our numbers through the night ! 

6 In every stream His bounty flows, 

Difi'using joy and wealth ; 
In every breeze His Spirit blows 
The breath of life and health. 

7 His blessings fall in plenteous showers 

Upon the lap of earth, 
That teems with foliage, fruits, and flowers. 
And rings with infant mirth. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 11 

8 If God hath made this world so fair, 
Where sin and death abound ; 
How beautiful, beyond compare, 
Will Paradise be found ! 



HYMN XI. 

The Sabhath. 

1 God the Creator bless'd 
The Sabbath of His rest ; 

His six days' work had brought 

The universe from nought ; 
The heavens and earth before Him stood, 
He saw them, and pronounced them good. 

2 God the Eedeemer blessed 
The Sabbath of His rest, 
When, all His sufferings done, 
The Cross's victory won. 

In Joseph's sepulchre He lay, 
And rested on the Sabbath Day. 

3 And God the Spirit bless'd 
The Christian Day of rest. 
Where (met with one accord) 
The servants of the Lord, 

To whom the Father's promise came. 
Like rushing wind and li\dng flame. 

4 The Church below hath bless'd 
Her own sweet Day of rest, 
When, in her spousal dress 
Of blood-bought righteousness, 



12 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

Her happy spirit can rejoice 

To hear her heavenly Bridegroom's voice. 

5 They love the Sabbath Day, 
Who love to sing and pray ; 
The Day of rest they love, 
Who seek their rest above ; 

They love the Day of God in seven, 
Who prize an antepast of heaven. 

6 My God, the Day is Thine ; 
may I make it mine ! 

By hallowing it to Thee, 
'Tis hallow'd twice to me ; 
And when with Thee my heart is right, 
. I call it holy — a delight. 



HYMN XII. 

Unnersal Worsliip. — Ps. cxlviii. 

Heralds of creation ! cry, — 
Praise the Lord, the Lord most high ! 
Heaven and earth ! obey the call. 
Praise the Lord, the Lord of all. 

For He spake, and forth from night 
Sprang the universe to light : 
He commanded, — Nature heard. 
And stood fast upon liis word. 

Praise Him, all ye hosts above, 
Spirits perfected in love ; 
Sun and moon ! your voices raise, 
Sing, ye stars ! your Maker's praise. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 13 

4 Earth ! from all thy depths below, 
Ocean's hallelujahs flow, 
Lightning, Vapour, Wind and Storm, 
Hail and Snow ! His will perform. 

5 Vales and Mountains ! burst in song ; 
Kivers ! roll his praise along ; 

Clap your hands, ye Trees ! and hail 
God, who comes in every gale. 

6 Birds ! on wings of rapture soar. 
Warble at His Temple door. 
Joyful sounds from Herds and Flocks, 
Echo back, ye Caves and Kocks ! 

7 Kings ! your Sovereign serve with awe ; 
Judges ! own His righteous law ; 
Princes ! worship Him with fear ; 
Bow the knee, all People ! here. 

8 Let His truth by Babes be told. 
And His wonders by the old ; 
Youths and maidens ! in your prime. 
Learn the lays of heaven betime. 

9 High above all height His throne. 
Excellent His name alone ; 

Him let all His works confess. 
Him let every Being bless. 



HYMN XIII. 

The various Lots of Man in Life. 

1 One human pair, and only one. 
Were form'd in youthful prime. 



14 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

All else that e'er beheld the sun, 
Were children in their time. 

2 For each a mother's pangs were borne, 

And many a father's eye 
Wept o'er his infant born to mourn, 
His infant born to die. 

3 With millions life was but a spark. 

Extinct as soon as fired ; 
Others, just glancing from the dark, 
Wept, smiled, look'd round, retired. 

4 Millions and millions more have pass'd 

Life's various pilgrimage. 
While Death at all his arrows cast, 
And slew of every age. 

5 Of these what multitudes untold 

Have 'never known their God, 
But blind, and ignorant, and bold. 
In paths of ruin trod. 

6 What guiltier multitudes have known, 

Yet scorn'd Him or denied. 
Lived to themselves and sin alone ; 
And as they lived they died. 

7 We may not wander like the first ; 

Then, lest we share the lot 
Of those more awfully accurst, 

Who knew, but loved. Him not, — 

8 May we hold fast the faithful word, 

Our future time redeem. 
Live, while we live, unto the Lord, 
Die, when we die, to Him. 



OKIGINAL HYMNS. 15 

HYMN XI^/ 

Mail's Fall and Eestoration. 

1 The days of Paradise were few, 

Man lived not long in innocence ; 
He sinn'd, and sin his offspring slew, 
Death pass'd on all for his offence. 

2 Adam survives throughout his race, 

We do our father's deeds by choice ; 
Like him, we shun our Maker's face. 
And tremble at our Judge's voice. 

3 Yet is our Maker still our Friend ; 

Man yet may meet his Judge with joy; 
God, in our nature, did not send 
His Son to punish and destoy. 

4 He sent Him forth to seek and save 

The lost, the dying, and the dead. 
Cancel the curse, despoil the grave. 
And bruise for ever Satan's head. 

5 Thou, who thy Son to us didst give, 

That none who trust in Him should die ; 
Grive us to Him that we may live ; — 
To His atoning blood we fly. 

6 Behold His sacrifice of love. 

So freely offer'd in our stead ; 
Behold Him at the throne above. 

And save the souls for whom He bled. 



16 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN XV. 

The Heavens declare the Glory of God. — Vs, xix. 

1 Thy glory, Lord, the heavens declare, 

The firmament displays Thy sldll ; 
The changing clonds, the viewless air, 

Tempest and calm Thy word fulfil ; 
Day unto day doth utter speech, 
And night to night Thy knowledge teach. 

2 Though voice nor sound inform the ear, 

Well-known the language of their song, 
When one by one the stars appear, 

Led by the silent moon along, 
Till round the earth, from all the sky, 
Thy beauty beams on every eye. 

3 Waked by Thy touch, the morning sun 

Gomes like a bridegroom from his bower, 
And, like a giant, glad to run 

His bright career with speed and power — 
Thy flaming messenger, to dart 
Life through the depth of Nature's heart 

4 While these transporting visions shine 

Along the path of Providence, 
Grlory eternal, joy divine. 

Thy word reveals, transcending sense ; 
My soul Thy goodness longs to see, 
Thy love to man. Thy love to me. 



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HYMN XYI. 

The Curse and the 



1 To Adam tlius Jehovah spake — 

" The ground, is cursed for thy sake ; 
Thence eat thy bread, and there once more 
Become the dust thou wert before." 

2 " Serpent/' again Jehovah said, 

" The woman's seed shall bruise thy head, 

Yet in the strife thy fury feel. 

For thou shalt turn and wound his heel." 

3 He comes ; — we hail His glorious birth, 
Who brings the blessing back to earth ; 
Nor Eden only, but the Tree 

Of Life and immortality. 



HYMN XYII. 

The N'ames and Offices of Christ. 

Bright and joyful is the morn, 

For to us a child is born ; 

From the highest realms of heaven 

Unto us a Son is given. 

On His shoulder He shall bear 

Power and majesty, and wear 

On His vesture and His thigh 

Names most awful, names most high. 

Wonderful in counsel, He, 

The incarnate Deity, 

Sire of ages ne'er to cease. 

King of kings, and Prince of Peace. 



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4 Come and worship at His feet, 
Yield to Christ the homage meet ; 
From His manger to His throne, 
Homao-e due to God alone. 



HYMN XVIII. 

The Spirit creating all Things New. 

Spirit of power and might, behold 

A world by sin destroy'd ; 
Creator- Spirit, as of old. 

Move on the formless void. 

Give Thou the word : — that healing sound 

Shall quell the deadly strife. 
And earth again, like Eden crown'd, 

Produce the Tree of Life. 

If sang the morning stars for joy, 

When nature rose to view, 
What strains will angel-harps employ, 

When Thou shalt all renew ! 

And if the sons of God rejoice 

To hear a Saviour's name. 
How will the ransom' d raise their voice, 

To whom that Saviour came ! 

So every kindred, tongue, and tribe, 

Assembling round the throne, 
Thy new creation shall ascribe 

To sovereign love alone. 



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HYMN XIX. 

The Flood. 

1 In vain the preacher cried, " Bepent ; 

Flee from impending wrath ; '' 
Headlong the world of rebels went 
Along its own broad path. 

2 They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, 

Built, planted, till the day 
When the flood came, and young and old 
Were swept at once away. 

3 A few that fear'd the warning word 

Escaped the doom of sin ; 
The ark received them, and the Lord 
Shut safe His servants in. 

4 The tide of time that knows no turn, 

Like that ingulfing flood. 
Whelms with destruction those that spurn 
God's truth and Jesus' blood. 

5 But still his preachers cry, '' Bepent ; 

Flee from sin's deadly doom ; " 

Forth from the ark this call is sent, 

^' Come in, there yet is room." 

6 Unshut the door, where Mercy stands, 

The perishing to save, 
With earnest eye, and outstretch'd hands, 
From death beyond the grave. 



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HYMN XX. 

Escape from the Deluge of Old. 

1 A WORLD of sinners once was drown'd, 

A deluge swept them all away ; 
One family alone had found 

Mercy in that great Judgment Day. 

2 Forewarned of wTath to come, theyfear'd, 

And, taught by God, prepared an ark, 
Which o'er the waves in sunshine steer'd, 
Where all below was dead and dark. 

3 Again the Spirit of the Lord 

Moved on the formless deep and void, 
And to the Patriarch's sight restored 
The relics of that world destroyed : 

4 A world without a breathing soul, 

Or sign of life in plant or tree ; 
Stretched like a corpse from pole to pole, 
Untraveird land, un voyaged sea ! 

5 Then from their hiding place they came, 

And straightway built an altar there ; 
Whence rose to heaven the double flame 
Of pure burnt sacrifice and prayer. 

6 We, in an ark not made with hands, 

God's own new covenant of peace, 
Which on the rock of ages stands, 
Seek refuge till his anger cease. 

7 Then, as the cloud-born rainbow smiled 

On Noah's ransom'd ones, we trace 
Our hep.venly Father reconciled 
In our incarnate Saviour's face. 



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HYMN XXI. 

The Building of another Tower than Babel. 

When men once more were multiplied^ 

In language and in heart the same, 
" Come, let us build a tower," they cried, 

^' To heaven, and get ourselves a name." 
The Lord came down to see their boast, 

Troubled their speech, perplexed their 
hands. 
And drove the panic-smitten host 

From Shinar's plains through unknown 
lands. 
A tower and temple more sublime. 

Whose top, indeed, to heaven shall reach, 
Is raised , — that men of every clime 

Again may have one heart, one speech. 
As varying instruments accord 

To form the sweetest minstrelsy. 
All hearts, as one, may love the Lord, 

All tongues, as one, in praise agree. 
Thus, till the head-stone be brought forth, 

To build that tower the saints unite ; 
And to the work, from south to north. 

From east to west, all tribes invite. 
Let young and old, as duty calls. 

Help to erect God's House of Prayer ; 
Till He hath gathered in its walls 

Earth's scattered tribes, to bless them there. 



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HYMN XXII. 

God in Creation^ Fvovidence^ and Grace. 

1 Creator, Kedeemer, and Spirit of Truth, 

One God over all evermore, 
In songs of thanksgiving, let manhood and 
youth 
Extol Thee, and praise, and adore. 

2 Thy power we behold in the works of Thy 

hand 
The heavens Thy glory declare ; 
Thy Providence rules over ocean and land ; 
All creatures that live are Thy care. 

3 Thy love beyond thought in the Gospel we 

trace ; 
The gift of all gifts is Thy Son, 
Redeeming, restoring, and blessing our race, 
When fallen, condemned, and undone. 

4 Thy kindness, long-suffering and mercy to 

crown. 
The heirs of salvation to seal, 
And dwell in Thy people, — the Spirit came 

down ; 
His influence now let us feel. 

5 The Father, the Son, and the Spirit of Truth, 

One God over all evermore. 
Let manhood and age join with childhood 
and youth. 
To honour, praise, love, and adore. 



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HYMN XXIII. 

Best for the Soul. — Psalm cxvi. 7. 

Keturn, my soul, unto thy rest, 

From vain pursuits and madcrning cares, 
From lonely woes that wring thy breast, 

The world's allurements, — Satan's snares. 
Keturn unto thy rest, my soul. 

From all the wanderings of thy thought, 
From sickness unto death made whole. 

Safe through a thousand perils brought. 
Then to thy rest, my soul, return 

From passions every hour at strife ; 
Sin's works, and ways, and wages spurn. 

Lay hold upon eternal life. 
God is tliy Rest, — with heart inclined 

To keep His Word, that Word believe ; 
Christ is thy Rest, — with lowly mind. 

His light and easy yoke receive 



HYMN XXIV. 

The Bible. 

Behold the Book, whose leaves display 
Jesus, the Life, the Truth, the Way ; 
Read it with diligence, with prayer, 
Search it, and you shall find Him there. 
So let me read, digest, and learn. 
That all its truths I may discern ; 
The entrance of Thy Word gives light, 
Lord, grant me to receive my sight. 



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HYMN XXV. 

The Holy Scriptures, 

1 Words of eternal life to me, 

may my faith receive the whole ; 
Bound with my heart-strings, let them be 
Hid in the secret of my soul. 

2 Though heaven and earth shall pass away, 

These words of prophecy are sure, 
Unchangeable amidst decay, 

And pure as God himself is pure. 

J Whoe'er to these shall add alloy. 

Or take one sacred fragment thence. 

Them and their works will GrOD destroy ; 

His arm shall be His truth's defence. 

4 Firm in that Truth may we abide, 

Till Christ our Lord appear again ; 
Come, say the Spirit and the Bride, 
Lord Jesus, quickly come : — Amen ! 



HYMN XXYI. 

The Bible a Light to the Christiati's Feet. 

What is the World ? — a wildering maze. 
Where sin hath track'd ten thousand ways, 

Her victims to ensnare ; 
All broad, and winding, and aslope. 
All tempting with perfidious hope, 

All ending in despair. 



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Millions of pilgrims throng those roads, 
Bearing their baubles or their loads, 

Down to eternal night ; 
— One only path that never bends, 
Narrow, and rough, and steep, ascends 

From darkness into light. 

Is there no guide to show that path ? 
The Bible ! — He alone AA^ho hath 

The Bible need not stray ; 
But He who hatli, and will not give 
That light of life to all that live. 

Himself shall lose the way. 



HYMN XXVII. 

The Law and the Testimonies. — Ps. xix. 

Thy law is perfect. Lord of light ! 

Thy testimonies sure. 
The statutes of Thy realm are right, 

And Thy commandments pure. 

Holy, inviolate Thy fear. 

Enduring as Thy throne : 
Thy judgments, chastening or severe, 

Justice and truth alone : — 

More prized than gold, — than gold whose 
Kefining fire ex^Dcls ; [waste 

Sv^reeter than honey to my taste. 
Than honey from the cells. 
2 



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4 Let tliese, GtOd ! my soul convert, 

And make Thy servant wise ; 

Let tliese be gladness to my heart, 

The day-spring to mine eyes. 

5 By these may I be warn'd betimes ; 

Who knows the guilt within .^ 
Lord, save me from presumptuous crimes, 
Cleanse me from secret sin ! 

6 So may the words my lips express. 

The thoughts that throng my mind, 
Lord, my strength and righteousness ! 
With Thee acceptance find. 



HYMN XXVIII. 

The Word of God in all its poioer. 

1 The Word of God, the Word of truth, 
Instruct our childhood, guide our youth, 
Uphold us through life's middle stage. 
And be our comfort in old age ! 

2 'Twas by that Word the heavens were made, 
By it the earth's foundations laid ; 

All things that are on it depend, 

Their source and stay, their rule and end. 

3 By it Jehovah gave His law. 

Midst sounds of terror, sights of awe ; 
By it the holy men of old " 
A better covenant foretold. 



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Christ Jesus came, Himself '^ the Word ; " 
His voice the powers of nature heard ; 
In servant's form, they knew His call, 
The Son of God, the Lord of all. 

The Word of mercy which He brought, 
The Word of wisdom which ~He taught, 
His Word of grace, so full, so free. 
Our hope, our joy, our portion be. 

That Word, if early doom'd to death, 
Kevive us at our latest breath, 
And when our souls in judgment stand, 
Decree our place at God's right hand. 



HYMN XXIX. 

The invitation of Wisdom. — ^Prov. viii. 

1 To us the voice of Wisdom cries. 
Hearken, ye children, and be wise ; 
Better than gold the fruit I bear, 
Rubies to me may not compare. 

2 Happy the man who daily waits 

To hear me, watching at my gates ; 
Wretched is he who scorns my voice, 
Death and destruction are his choice. 

3 To them that love me I am kind ; 
And those who seek me early find ; 

My Son, give me thine heart, — and learn 
Wisdom from folly to discern. 



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4 The LoED possess'd me, ere of old, 
His hand the firmament unroU'd ; 
Before He bade the mountains stand, 
Or pour'd the ocean romid the land. 

5 Kejoicing then before his throne. 
From everlasting I was known ; 
Kejoicing still, as in His sight, 
With men on earth is my delight. 

6 Mark the beginning of my law, 

— Fear ye the Lord with sacred awe ; 
Mark the fulfilment of the whole. 
Love ye the Lord with aU yom- soul. 

7 We hear, we learn ; may we obey ; 
Jesus, the life, the truth, the way. 
Wisdom and righteousness, we see, 
Grace and salvation all in Thee. 



HYMN XXX. 

" Tliou^ God^ seest me^ — Gen. xvi. 13. 

God, unseen, but not unknown. 
Thine eye is ever fix'd on me ; 

1 dwell beneath Tliy secret throne. 

Encompassed by Thy Deity. 

Throughout this universe of space, 
To nothing am I long allied. 

For flight of time, and change of piace, 
My strongest, dearest bonds divide. 



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3 Parents I had, but where are they ? 

Friends whom I knew, I know no more ; 
Companions, once that cheer'd my way. 
Have dropp'd behind or gone before. 

4 Now I am one amidst a crowd 

Of life and action hurrying round ; 
Now left alone, — for, like a cloud. 

They came, they went, and are not found. 

5 Even from myself sometimes I part : 

Unconscious sleep is nightly death, 
Yet surely by my couch Thou art. 

To prompt my pulse, inspire my breath. 

6 Of all that I have done and said. 

How little can I now recall : 
Forgotten things to me are dead ; 

With Thee they live, — Thou know'st them 
all. 

7 Thou hast been with me from the womb, 

Witness to every conflict here ; 

Nor wilt Thou leave me at the tomb, 

Before Thy bar I must appear. 

8 The moment comes, — the only one 

Of all my time to be foretold ; 
Yet when, and how, and where, can none 
Among the race of man unfold : — 

9 The moment comes, when strength shall fail, 

When (health and hope and courage flown) 
I must go down into the vale 

And shade of death with Thee alone. 



30 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

10 Alone with Thee ! — in that dread strife 

Uphold me through mine agony, 
And gently be this dying life 
Exchanged for immortality. 

11 Then, when the unbodied spirit lands 

Where flesh and blood have never trod, 
And in the nnveiFd presence stands. 
Of Thee, my Saviour and my God ;- 

12 Be mine eternal j)ortion this. 

Since Thou wert always here with me, 
— That I may view Thy face in bliss. 
And be for evermore with Thee. 



HYMN XXXI. 

The Almiglitiness of God. — ^Mark, x. 27. 

1 With men impossible ! 

What hope remains for me ? 
A sinner on the verge of hell. 
How ? whither ? shall I flee ? 

2 " Flee from the wrath to come,'' 

I hear Jehovah say ; 
What can I do — let doubt be dumb,- 
What can I — but obey ? 

3 His sceptre or His rod. 

Who shall control them ? — None : 
All things are possible with God, 
He speaks, and it is done. 



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4 'Tis but to know His will, 

And in His power confide. 
Then faith may bid the sun stand still, 
Or walk upon the tide. 

5 The Lord can make a worm ' 

Almio;hty if He please, 
And at His single word perform 
Impossibilities. 

6 When to the blind man's eyes 

He saith '' Behold ! " 'tis so : 
And when He calls the dead, they rise, 
Though the grave's mouth cries " "N"o ! " 

7 Then, my Kedeemer, then. 

From wrath to love I flee, 
The things impossible to men, 
Are possible with Thee. 

8 I, at Thy feet, in dust. 

My unbelief resign. 
In Thee alone is all my trust. 
Lord, save me, I am thine. 



HYMN XXXII. 

All have sinned; all may he sa^ed. 

A CHILD of man, a child of God, 
How wide their states must be ! 

Beneath His sceptre or His rod, 
His wrath or clemency. 



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2 Children of Adam, Adam's fall 

From primal innocence, 
Brought guilt and judgment on us all, 
EntaiFd through one offence. 

3 Train'd in His image from our birth, 

We sinn'd, ourselves, and fell, 
Like him, from heirs of heaven on earth, 
To heirs of death and hell. 

4 Transgressors while we thus remain, 

In our own blood we lie ; 
We must be born, be born again, 
Or die, for ever die. 

5 A child of man, a child of Grod, 

How can such union be ? 
A worm created from a clod. 
Allied to Deity ! 

6 Lo ! love divine, for man undone, 

Devised the wondrous plan. 
The Son of God, God's only Son, 
Became the Son of man. 

7 Our path of life and death He trod, 

That we Hke Him might be, 
Though sons of men, the sons of God, 
Through His humanity. 

8 All glory to the Father's love. 

Who spared not His Son, 
And sent His Spirit from above. 
To seal what Christ had done. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 3E 

HYMN XXXIII. 

Christ the Messiah manifested in his Advent arid Offices. 

1 A CHILD is bonij — the birth proclaim, 
A son is given, — declare his name ; 
Messiah, from the Fall foretold, 

The Deity in human mould ; 

— That mould from which, God's image lost 

In Eden at so dire a cost. 

The new creation shall restore. 

And guilt efface its hues no more. 

2 Hail ! to His rising from afar, 

He is the bright and morning star ; 
His healing beams, ye nations, bless, 
He is the Sun of Kighteousness 
To save His peoj^le from their sins, 
Jesus His suffering life begins ; 
Ere long as Christ our sacrifice, 
The Holy and the Just One dies. 

3 Again His glorious name record. 
As David's Son and David's Lord ; 
He mounts the mediatorial throne, 

To claim earth's kingdoms for his own : 
Him every eye again shall see 
Descend in power and majesty. 
His ransom'd in the clouds to meet, 
And put all foes beneath his feet. 



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HYMN XXXIV. 

The Name aboie every Name. 

1 The Xame, the Name o'er every name 

In earth or heaven above. 
Let babes' and sucldings' hps proclaim 
And youth adore and love, 

2 Jesus, the Son of God most high, 

Whose image He express' d. 
The fullness of the Deity, 
In flesh made manifest : — 

3 Jesus, the Son of Man became, 

Assumed our mortal breath. 
Endured the cross, depised the shame, 
And pour'd His soul in death. 

4 Jesus, omnipotent to save. 

Then triumph'd gloriously ; 
Death ! where is thy sting ? Grave ! 
Where is thy victory.^ 

5 Kedemption in His blood begins. 

In His atonement ends ; 
He saves His people from their sins ; 
Who would not be His friends ? 

6 To God the Father's glory, now, 

Jesus, Thy name we bless ; 
Let every knee before it bow. 
And every tongue confess. 



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HYMN XXXV. 

Angels and Men, 

Angels, the firstborn sons of light, 

Since from their glorious seats they fell , 

Are outcasts in eternal night ; 

There is no gospel preach'd in hell. 

Man, when beguiled from innocence, 
Saw death and judgment come on all ; 

But Jesus died for his offence. 
To raise us higher than our fall. 

Angels, who kept their first estate. 

Who sinn'd not, knew not guilt or woe. 

In bliss beyond expression great. 
The bliss of pardon cannot know. 

We, born in sorrow and in sin, 

Yet by a new and living way 
To Paradise again brought in, — - 

May taste of sweeter joys than they. 

Oh ! through Eternity to trace 

How much, how much hath been forgiven, 
The riches of redeeming grace. 

That, that must be the heaven of heaven. 

Lord Jesus Christ, who, for our sake, 
Wert pleased a child like us to be. 

Of every soul possession take. 
And new-create us all like Thee. 



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HYMN XXXYI. 

Vain Gonjidence and Self-deception. 

1 Let not the strong, the rich, the wise, 

Of knowledge, wealth, or power be vain, 
What mortals covet most, most prize. 

When won, how few can long retain ! 
Heaven's noblest gift may prove a snare, 
Unsanctified by faith and prayer. 

2 He slept on pleasm-e's lap, and woke 

Shorn of his strength ! Poor Samson found 
The Lord had left him, when he broke 

The vow with which his life was bound ; 
Blind, chain'd, enslaved, returning strength 
Brought death with his revenge at length. 

3 The wily traitor was betray'd 

In his own craft ; though woven well, 
The net which for his king he laid 

Entangled wise Achitophel ; 
Folly o'erruled what wisdom plann'd. 
He perish'cl byhis own false hand. 

4 " Soul, take thine ease ; eat, drink, rejoice, 

Through length of years," the rich man 
said ; 
" Thou fool ! this night," replied the voice 

That calls the living to the dead, 
" Thy soul shall be required of thee. 
Whose then shall all thy treasures be ? " 

5 Wise to salvation through His Word, 

And rich in faith His kingdom's heir, 



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Strong in the strength of Christ my Lord ; 

Be this my portion ! 'tis my prayer : 
For this would I count all things loss, 
And glory only in the cross. 



HYMN XXXYII. 

For Guardianship . through Life and Death. — Acts, 
xvii. 28. 

1 To Thee in whom we live and move. 

And have our being here, 
A higher, holier state to prove. 
Through Christ let us draw near. 

2 Though born in sin, to trouble born, 

Transgressors from the womb, 
Leave not thine offspring thus forlorn, 
In error, doubt, and gloom. 

3 Send out, good Lord, Thy light and truth, 

Through each advancing stage. 
To guard in childhood, guide in youth, 
And comfort us in age. 

4 Darkness for light may we not choose, 

For falsehood truth forego. 
Nor things that are eternal lose 
For vanities below. 

5 Teach us to number so our days, 

That we our hearts apply 
To walk in Wisdom's pleasant ways, 
In them to live and die. 



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6 Living, prepared with every breath 
Our spirits to resign ; 
Dying, lay hold on life in death, 
And so be ever Thine. 



HYMN XXXYIII. 

Covenanting to serve the Lord. 

1 Come, ye that fear the Lord, 

And love Him v^hile ye fear ; 
Come, and with heart and hand record 
Your vow and covenant here. 

2 Yow to be His alone 

Who bought you with a price ; 
Now render back to God His own, 
By free-will sacrifice. 

3. Here to His altar brought. 
Your covenant renew, 
To be in word, and deed, and thought, 
Faithful to Him and true. 

4 And true and faithful He 

To you will ever prove, 
Though hills were swept into the sea, 
And mountains should remove. 

5 Then be His law our choice, 

The joy of young and old. 
As sheep that hear their shepherd's voice, 
And follow to the fold. 



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So shall His staff and rod 

Conduct us and defend : 
God is a covenant-keeping God, 

And loves unto the end. 



HYMN XXXIX. 

" I will dless tliee^ — and tliou slialt te a Messing y 
Gen. xii. 2. 

Where'er the Patriarch pitch'd his tent, 

He built an altar to his God, 
And sanctified, where'er he went, 

With faith and prayer, the ground he trod, 

Through all the East, for riches famed, 
Heaven's gifts, he set his heart on none ; 

Nor, when the dearest was reclaim'd. 
Withheld his son, his only son. 

Wherefore, in blessing, he was blest ; 

Friendless, the friend of God became ; 
Long- wandering, every where found rest ; 

Long childless, nations bear his name. 

Nor nations born of blood alone, 

The father of the faithful he ; 
Where'er his promised seed is known. 

Faith's heirs are his posterity. 

My God, what Thou hast made my home. 

Let me Thy sanctuary make ; 
My God, if call'd by Thee to roam, 
- Glad may I all for Thee forsake. 



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6 Thy law, Thy Love, be my delight, 
Whatever I do, or think, or am. 
Walking by faith, and not by sight, 
Like a true child of Abraham. 



HYMN XL. 

The Lord the OgocI Shepherd. — Ps. xxiii. 

The Lord is my Shepherd, nor want shall I 
know ; 
I feed in green pastures, safe-folded I rest ; 
He leadeth my soul were the still waters flow, 
Restores me when wandering, redeems 
when opprest. 
Through the valley and shadow of death 
though I stray. 
Since Thou art my guardian no evil I fear ; 
Thy rod shall defend me. Thy staff be my 
stay ; 
No harm can befall, with my Comforter 
near. 
In the midst of affliction my table is spread ; 
With blessings unmeasured my cup run- 
neth o'er ; 
With perfume and oil. Thou anointest my 
head ; 
! what shall I ask of Thy Providence 
more ? 
Let goodness and mercy, my bountiful GtOD ! 
Still follow my steps, till I meet Thee 
above : 



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I seek, by the path which my forefathers trod 
Through the knd of their sojourn, Thy 
kiugxloDi of love. 



HYMN XLI. 

The Majesty of God. — Ps. xcii. 

The Lord is King : — upon His throne, 
He sits in garments glorious : 

Or girds for war His armour on, 
In every field victorious : 

The world came forth at his command ; 

Built on His word its pillars stand ; 
They never can be shaken. 

The Lord was King ere time began. 

His reign is everlasting : 
When high the floods in tumult ran. 

Their foam to heaven up-casting, 
He made the raging waves His path ; 
The sea is mighty in its wrath, 

But God on high is mightier. 

Thy testimonies. Lord, are sure ; 

Thy realm fears no commotion ; 
Firm as the earth, whose shores endure 

The eternal toil of ocean : 
And Thou with perfect peace wilt bless 
Thy faithful flock ; — for holiness 

Becomes Thine house for ever. 



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HYMN XLIL 

God Omniiyre><ent and Omniscient. — Ps. cxxxix. 

Searcher of hearts ! to Thee are known 

The himost secrets of my breast ; 
At home, abroad, in crov^'cls, alone, 

Thou mark'st my rising and my rest, 
My thoughts far off, through every maze, 
Source, stream, and issue, — all my ways. 
How from Thy presence should I go, 

Or whither from Thy Spirit flee. 
Since all above, around, below. 

Exist in Thine immensity ? 
If up to heaven I take my way, 
I meet Thee in eternal day. 
If in the grave I make my bed 

With worms and dust, lo ! Thou art there 
If, on the wings of morning sped. 

Beyond the ocean I repair, 
I feel Thine all-controlling will, 
And Thy right hand upholds me still. 
" Let darkness hide me," if I say. 

Darkness can no concealment be ; 
Night on Thy rising, shines like day ; 

Darkness and light are one with Thee : 
For Thou mine embryo-form didst view, 
Ere her own babe my mother knew. 
In me Thy workmanship displayed, 

A miracle of power I stand : 
Fearfully, wonderfully made, 

And framed in secret by Thine hand : 



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I lived, ere into being brought, 
Through Thine eternity of thought 
How precious are Thy thoughts of peace, 

G-OD, to me ! how great the sum ! 
New every morn, they never cease ; 

They were, they are, and yet shall come. 
In number and in comjjass more 
Than ocean's sands or ocean's shore. 
Search me, God ! and know my heart ; 

Try me, my inmost soul survey ; 
And warn Thy servant to depart 

From every false and evil way : 
So shall Thy truth my guidance be 
To life and immortality. 



HYMN XLIII. 

The Christian Soldier. 

The Christian warrior, — see him stand 
In the whole armour of his G-od : 

The Spirit's sword is in his hand ; 
His feet are with the gospel shod ; 

In panoply of truth complete. 
Salvation's helmet on his head : 

With righteousness, a breastplate meet ; 
And faith's broad shield before him spread. 

He wrestles not with flesh and blood. 

But principalities and powers, 
Eulers of darkness, like a flood, 

Nigh, and assailing at all hours. 



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4 Nor Satan's fiery darts alone, 

Quencli'd on his shield, at him are hurl'd ; 
The traitor in his heart is known, 

And the dire friendship of this world. 

5 Undaunted to the field he goes ; 

Yet vain were skill and valour there, 
Unless, to foil his legion-foes. 

The trustiest weajDon were " all-prayer.'' 

6 With this omnipotence he moves. 

From this the alien armies flee. 
Till more than conqueror he proves. 
Through Christ who gives him victory. 

7 Thus, strong in his Redeemer's strength. 

Sin, death, and hell, he tramples down. 
Fights the good fight, and wins at length, 
Through mercy, an immortal crown. 



HYMN XLIV. 

The peaceful Summons of Salvation opposed to the 
Sounds of War. — (Anniversary.) 

Not hy the brazen trumpet's voice. 
But the sweet sky-lark's early lay. 

Our tribes are summoned, to rejoice 
In God their Saviour on this day. 

Not to the battle-field we throng. 

With deadly steel in murderous hands, 

But on our hill of peace the song 

Of triumph bursts from all our bands. 



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3 Then, in the temples of the Lord, 

Assembling round a throne of grace 
We sing, and pray, and hear the word, 
And meet our Maker face to face. 

4 Salvation's silver trumpet brings 

Heaven's richest music to our ears ; 
Happy, whose heart with rapture springs, 
At the first welcome note he hears. 

5 He, when the last dread trumpet's tone 

The dead to second life shall call. 
May stand unmoved ])efore the throne, 
Though stars, like lightnings, round him 
faU. 

6 He, where eternal sabbaths shine. 

Where all by GrOD himself are taught. 
Lessons shall learn of truth divine. 
Of power and love, surpassing thought. 

HYMN XLV. 

Qod^s great Deliverance of His People. — Ps. cvii. 
PART I. — The Wilderness. 

1 Thank and praise Jehovah's name 

For his mercies firm and sure, 
From eternity the same. 
To eternity endure. 

2 Let the ransom'd thus rejoice, 

Grather'd out of every land ; 
As the people of his choice, 

Pluck'd from the destroyer's hand. 



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3 In the wilderness astray, 

Hither, thither, while they roam, 
Hungry, fainting by the way, 
Far from refuge, shelter, home ; 

4 Then unto the Lord they cry ; 

He inclines a gracious ear. 
Sends deliverance from on high, 
Kescues them from all their fear. 

5 To a pleasant land He brings. 

Where the vine and olive grow. 

Where from flowery hills the springs 

Through luxuriant valleys flow. 

6 that men would praise the Lord, 

For His goodness to their race ; 
For the wonders of His word. 
And the riches of His grace ! 

PAET II. — From CaiMmty. 

"7 They that mourn in dungeon-gloom, 
Bound in iron and despair. 
Sentenced to a heavier doom 

Than the pangs they suffer there ; — 

8 Foes and rebels once to God, 

They disdain' d His high control ; 
Now they feel His fiery rod, 

Striking terrors through their soul. 

9 Wrung with agony, they fall 

To the dust, and, gazing round, 
Call for help ; — in vain they call ; 
Help, nor hope, nor friend are found. 



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10 Then unto the Lord they cry ; 

He inch'nes a gracious ear, 
Sends deliverance from on high. 
Eescues them from all their fear. 

11 He restores their forfeit breath, 

Breaks in twain the gates of brass ; 
From the bands and grasp of death, 
Forth to liberty they pass. 

12 that men would praise the Lord, 

For his goodness to their race. 
For the wonders of His word, 
And the riches of His grace ! 

PAET III. From Malignant Disease. 

13 Sinners, for transgression, see 

Sharp disease their youth consume, 
And their beauty, like a tree. 
Withering on an early tomb. 

14 Food is loathsome to their taste. 

And the eye revolts from light ; 
All their joys to rain haste. 
As the sunset into night. 

15 Then unto the Lord they cry ; 

He inclines a gracious ear, 
Sends deliverance from on high. 
Rescues them from all their fear. 

16 He with health renews their frame. 

Lengthens out their numbered days, 
Let them glorify His name 
With the sacrifice of praise. 



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17 that men would praise the Lord, 

For his goodness to their race, 
For the wonders of His word, 
And the riches of His grace ! 

PAET lY. Perils on the Deep. 

18 They that toil upon the deep, 

And, in vessels light and frail, 
O'er the mighty waters sweep. 
With the billow and the gale, — 

1 9 Mark what wonders God performs, 

When He speaks, and, unconfined, 
Kush to battle all His storms. 
In the chariots of the wind. 

20 Up to heaven their bark is whirFd 

On the mountain of the wave, 
Down as suddenly 'tis hurl'd 
To the' abysses of the grave. 

21 To and fro they reel and roU, 

As intoxicate with wine ; 
Terrors paralyze their soul. 

Helm they quit, and hope resign. 

22 Then unto the Lord they cry ; 

He inchnes a gracious ear, 
Sends deliverance from on high, 
Kescues them from all their fear. 

23 Calm and smooth the surges flow, 

And where deadly lightning ran, 
God's own reconciling bow 
Metes the ocean with a span. 



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24 that men would praise the Lord, 
For His goodness to their race, 
For the wonders of His word. 
And the riches of His grace ! 



HYMN XLYI. 

Time pas% Time passing, Time to come. — Ps. xc. 

1 Lord, Thou hast been Thy people's rest, 

Through all their generations ; 
Their refuge when by troubles prest. 

Their hope in tribulations : 
Thou, ere the mountains sprang to birth. 
Or ever Thou hadst form'd the earth. 

Art God from everlasting. 

2 Our life is like the transient breath. 

That tells a mournful story ; 
Early or late, stopt short by death ;— 

And where is all our glory ? 
Our days are threescore years and ten. 
And if the span be lengthened then. 

Their strength is toil and sorrow. 

3 Lo ! Thou hast set before Thine eyes 

All our misdeeds and errors ; 
Our secret sins from darkness rise 

At Thine awakening terrors : 
Who shall abide the trying hour ? 
Who knows the thunder of Thy power ? 

We flee unto Thy mercy. 
3 



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4 Lord, teach us so to mark our days, 
That we may prize them duly ; 
So guide our feet in Wisdom's ways. 

That we may love Thee truly : 
Keturn, Lord ! our griefs behold, 
And with Thy goodness, as of old, 
satisfy us early. 



HYMN XLVII. 

Tlie Long-suffering^ Loving-Mndness^ and Tender-mercy 
of God. — Ps. ciii. 

1 MY soul ! with all thy powers, 

Bless the Lord's most holy name*; 
my soul ! till life's last hours. 

Bless the Lord, His praise proclaim ; 
Thine infirmities He heal'd, 
He thy peace and pardon seal'd. 

2 He with loving-kindness crown'd thee, 

Satisfied thy mouth with good, 
From the snares of death unbound thee, 

Eagle-like thy youth renew'd : 
Eich in tender mercy He, 
Slow to wrath^ to favour free. 

3 He will not retain displeasure, 

Though awhile He hide His face. 
Nor His God-like bounty measure 

By our merit, but His grace : 
As the heaven the earth transcends, 
Over us His care extends. 



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4 Far as east and west are parted, 

He our sins hatli severed thus ; 
As a father, loving-hearted, 

SjDares his son. He spareth us ; 
For He knows our feeble frame. 
He remembers whence we came. 

5 From eternity enduring, 

To eternity, the Lord, 
Still His people's bliss insuring. 

Keeps His covenanted word : 
Yea, with truth and righteousness, 
Children's children He will bless. 

6 As in heaven. His throne and dwelling. 

King on earth He holds His sway ; 
Angels ! ye in strength excelling, 

Bless the Lord, His voice obey : 
All His works beneath the pole 
Bless the Lord, with thee, my soul ! 



HYMN XLYIIL 

Moses in the Desert. 

Go where a foot hath never trod. 
Through unfrequented forests flee ; 

The wilderness is full of God, 
His presence dwells in every tree. 

To Israel and to Egypt dead, 

Moses the fugitive appears ; 
Unknown he lived, till o'er his head 
Had fall'n the snow of fourscore years. 



62 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

3 But God the wandering exile found, 

In His appointed time and place ; 
The desert sand grew holy ground. 
And Horeb's rock a throne of grace. 

4 The lonely bush a tree became, 

A tree of beauty and of light, 
Involved with unconsuming flame. 

That made the moon around it night. 

5 Then came the Eternal Voice that spake 

Salvation to the chosen seed ; 
Thence went the Almighty arm that brake 
Proud Pharaoh's yoke, and Israel freed. 

6 By Moses, old and slow of speech. 

These mighty miracles were shown ; 
Jehovah's messenger ! to teach 
That power belongs to God alone 



HYMN XLIX. 

The Death of Moses. 

He climb'd the mountain ; and behold ! 

The land before him lay : 
Here Jordan's bounding waters roU'd, 

There Carmel stretch'd away. 
From northern Lebanon, outspread. 

To Araby the wild. 
Where strangers' lives the Patriarchs led. 

Their promised Canaan smiled : 
A land of fountains and of rills, 

Where milk and honey flow'd ; 
Whose stones were iron ; from whose hills 

Brass in the furnace glow'd : 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 53 

4 A land of corn, and wine, and oil, 

Whose trees with fruitage hung, 
While birds, to soothe the labourers' toil. 
Amid the branches sung. 

5 Valleys stood thick with golden grain. 

Goats bounded on the rocks, 
And white and dark, on slope and plain, 
Roam'd pasturino^ herds and flocks. 

6 But all the soil with blood was stain'd, 

Revenge and rapine strove ; 
Pagan abominations reign'd 
In every haunted grove. 

7 From cities populous and proud 

The shrieks of children came, 
Where drums and cymbals led the crowd. 
Round Moloch's altar-flame. 

8 The vision changed ; — then Moses saw 

The Idols overthrown, 
God out of Zion giving law, 
God worshiped there alone. 

9 And still the vision grew more bright ; 

On humble Bethlehem shined 
The star of Jacob, and a light 
To lighten all mankind, 

10 In silent trance the prophet gazed : 

" It is enough," he cried ; 
His hands with holy rapture raised, 
Saw the Lord's Christ, and died. 

11 His spirit return'd to God who gave ; 

His body, nowhere found. 



54 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

Shall keep the secret of its grave 
Till the last trumpet sound. 



HYMN L. 

The Three Mountains. 

When on Sinai's top I see 
God descend in Majesty, 
To proclaim His holy law, 
All my spirit sinks witli awe. 

Wlien, in ecstasy sublime, 
Tabor's glorious steep I climb, 
At the too-transporting light. 
Darkness rushes o'er my sight. 

When on Calvary I rest, 
God, in flesh made manifest. 
Shines in my Redeemer's face, 
Full of beauty, truth, and grace. 

Here I would for ever stay. 
Weep and gaze my soul away ; 
Thou art heaven on earth to me, 
Lovely, mournful Calvary. 



HYMN LI. 

Choosing the Heritage of Goal's People. 



1 People of the living God 



I have souo-ht the world around. 



"O 



Paths of sin and sorrow trod 



Peace and comfort nowhere found. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 55 

Now to you my spirit turns, 

Turns, a fugitive unblessed ; 
Brethren, where your altar burns, 

receive me into rest ! 

Lonely I no longer roam, ^ 

Like the cloud, the wind, the wave ; 
Where you dwell shall be my home, 

Where you die shall be my grave ; 
Mine the God whom you adore. 

Your Kedeemer shall be mine ; 
Earth can fill my heart no more, 

Every idol I resign. 

Tell me not of gain or loss. 

Ease, enjoyment, jDomp, and power , 
Welcome poverty and cross. 

Shame, reproach, affliction's hour : 
'' Follow me ! '' — I know the voice ; 

Jesus, Lord, Thy steps I see ; 
Now I take Thy yoke by choice, 

Light Thy burden now to me. 



HYMN LIL 

A Visit to Bethlehem in Spirit. 

The scene arround me disappears. 
And, borne to ancient regions. 

While Time recals the flight of years, 
I see angehc legions 

Descending in an orb of light, 

Amidst the dark and silent night ; 
I hear celestial voices. 



56 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

2 " Tidings, glad tidings from above 

To every age and nation ; 
Tidings, glad tidings, — God is love, 

To man He sends salvation : 
His Son beloved. His only Son, 
The work of mercy hath begun ; 

Give to his name the glory." 

3 Through David's city I am led ; 

Here all around are sleeping ; 
A light directs to yon poor shed, 

There lonely watch is keeping : 
I enter ; — ah ! what glories shine ! 
Is this Immanuers earthly shrine ? 

Messiah's infant temple ? 

4 It is. it is ; and I adore 

This Stranger meek and lowly, 
As saints and seraphs bow before 

The throne of God thrice holy : 
Faith through the veil of flesh can see 
The face of thy Divinity, 

My Lord, my God, my Saviour ! 



HYMN LIII. 

The Three Marys. 

Mary, the Mother of Jesus. 

Like Mary, when the angel came 
To hail her from on liigh ; 

We, when God's messengers proclaim 
Glad tidings, would reply, — 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 57 

" Behold the handmaid of the Lord, 
Be it according to Thy word." 
Come, Holy G-host, Thy power impart, 
Form Christ in every heart. 

Mary, the Sister of Lazarus. 

Like Mary, phiced at Jesus' feet. 

We hear His words with joy ; 
Nor would we change our humble seat 

For Martha's hard employ. 
Now, too, like Mary, when she shed 
The precious spikenard on his head. 
Sweet fall our tears from grateful eyes, 
While prayers like incense rise. 

Mary Magdalene. 

Like Mary at the sepulchre. 

Our risen Lord we seek : 
Jesus, reveal Thyself : — like her. 

Oh ! might w^e hear Thee speak ! 
Thy look, Thy voice. Thy love the same, 
Call each poor handmaid by her name ; 
While, with full heart and kindling eye, 

All, all, " Kabboni ! " cry. 



HYMN LIV. 

The Good Shepherd and His Flock. 

1 Green pastures and clear streams, 
Freedom and quiet rest. 



58 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

Christ's flock enjoy, beneath His "beams, 
Or in His shadow rest. 

2 The mountain and the vale, 

Forest and field, they range ; 
The morning dew, the evening gale, 
Bring health in every change. 

3 Secure amidst alarms. 

From violence or snares, 
The lambs He gathers in His arms, 
And in His bosom bears. 

4 The wounded and the weak 

He comforts, heals, and binds ; 
The lost He came from heaven to seek, 
And saves them when He finds. 

5 Through wilds of brier and thorn, 

In darkness if they stray. 
They wander not like waifs forlorn ; 
Their Shepherd is their way. 

6 Should storms of trouble blow, 

Warn'd of the coming shock. 
They to the Eock of Ages go ; 
Their Shepherd is their Kock. 

7 Let earth and hell oppose. 

Let Satan take the field ; 
Quench'd are the darts of all their foes ; 
Their Shepherd is their shield. 

8 Death may assail ; but death 

Is vanquished in the strife ; 
Their moment of departing breath, 
Begins eternal life. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 5^ 

9 Conflicts and trials done, 
His glory they behold, 
Where Jesus and His flock are one, 
One Shepherd and one fold. 
10 When the last trump shall sound, 
And graves break up their sleep. 
At His right hand may we be found, 
Among the chosen sheep. 



HYMN LV. 

The Christian Israel. 

Thus far on life's perplexing path, 

Thus far, Thou, Lord, our steps hast led ; 
Snatched from the world's pursuing wrath, 

Unharm'd, though floods hung o'er our 
head; 
Like ransom'd Israel on the shore, 
Here, then, we pause, look back, adore. 
Strangers and pilgrims here below. 

Like all our fathers in their day. 
We to the land of promise go, 

Lord, by Thine own appointed way : 
Still guide, illumine, cheer our flight. 
In cloud by day, in fire by night. 
Safety Thy presence is, aijd rest ; 

While, — as the eagle, o'er her brood 
Flutters her pinions, stirs the nest, 

Covers, defends, provides them food, 
Bears on her wings, instructs to fly, — 
Thy love prepares us for the sky. 



60 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

4 Protect us through the wilderness 

From fiery tempest, plague, and foe ; 
With hread from heaven Thy people bless, 

And living streams v^here'er we go : 
Nor let our rebel hearts repine. 
Or follow any voice but Thine. 

5 Thy holy law to us proclaim. 

But not from Sinai's top alone ; 
Hid in the rock-cleft, be Thy name. 

Thy power and all Thy goodness shown ; 
And may we never bow the knee. 
Or worship any God but Thee. 

6 When we have number'd all our years, 

And stand, at length, on Jordan's brink, 
Though the flesh fail with mortal fears, 

let not then the spirit sink ; 
But, strong in faith, and hope, and love, 
Plunge through the stream to rise above. 



HYMN LVI. 

The Waters of Life. — Numbers xxi. 

Spring up, well ! sweet fountain, sprin 
And fructify the desert sand ; 

Sing ye that drink ; the waters sing. 
They dance along the smiling land ; 

With flowers adorn, with verdure bless, 

The waste and howling wilderness. 

Ho, every one that thirsts draw nigh, 
With sickness fainting, worn with toil ; 



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ORIGINAL HYMNS. 61 

Let him that hath no money buy, 

Buy milk and honey, wine and oil, 
The fourfold streams of Paradise, 
Priceless, because above all price. 
Come to the pools, ye lame and blind ; 

Ye lepers, to this Jordan come ; 
Sight, strength, and healing each may find : 

Approach the waves, ye deaf and dumb ; 
Their joyful sound ye soon shall hear, 
And your own voice delight your ear. 
In every form the waters run. 

Kill, river, torrent, lake, and sea ; 
Through every clime beneath the sun, 

Free as the air, as daylight free, 
Till earth's whole face the floods o'erweep. 
As ocean's tides the channel'd deep. 
As moved with mighty wings outspread, 

God's Spirit o'er the formless void, 
So be that Spirit's influence shed 

To new-create a world destroy'd ; 
Till all that died through Adam's fall 
Kevive in Christ, who died for all. 



HYMN LYII. 

A Fountain opened for Sin and Uhcleanness. 

Come to Calvary's holy mountain, 

Sinners ruin'd by the fall ; 
Here a pure and healing fountain 

Flows to you, to me, to all. 
In a full, perpetual tide, 
Open'd when our Saviour died. 



62 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

2 Come in poverty and meanness, 

Come defiled, without, within ; 
From infection and uncleanness, 

From the leprosy of sin, 
Wash your robes and make them white 
Ye shall walk with God in light. 

3 Come, in sorrow and contrition, 

Wounded, impotent, and blind ; 
Here the guilty free remission. 

Here the troubled peace may find ; 
Health this fountain will restore. 
He that drinks shall thirst no more : — 

4 He that drinks shall live for ever ; 

'Tis a soul-renewing flood : 
God is faithful ; — God will never 

Break his covenant in blood, 
Sign'd when our Eedeemer died, 
SeaFd when he was glorified. 



HYMN LVIII. 

Christ's Mission. 

The world in condemnation lay. 
And death, from Adam reigning, 

O'er man maintained remorseless sway, 
While sin his soul enchaining, 

Foredoom'd the second death to all 

That shared the ruins of the fall ; 
But Christ's triumphant mission 
Redeemed us from perdition. 



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Then round His manger let us throng, 

Attend Him in temptation, 
Carry our cross with joy along 

His path of tribulation ; 
With Him to Olivet retire. 
On Calvary at His feet expire ; 

Then, on Mount Zion seated, 

Our bhss shall be comj)leted. 



HYMN LIX. 

The Prince of Peace. 

When war on earth suspended 

His wild career of woes, 
The Prince of Peace descended, 

A guiltier strife to close : 
Vain battles worms were waging 

With their Creator GtOD : 
He came, and wrath assuaging, 

Made peace with His own blood. 

The storm that flamed and lower' d, 

Was calm at His command ; 
The rod of Justice flower'd, 

Like Aaron's, in His hand : 
That sceptre, love-revealing, 

Kebels approach and kiss ; 
Its leaves are for your healing. 

Its fruits — immortal bliss. 



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HYMN LX. 

Christ our Example in Suffering. 

1 Go to dark Getlisemane, 

Ye that feel the tempter's power ; 
Your Eedeemer's conflict see, 

Watch with Him one bitter hour : 
Turn not from his griefs away, 
Learn of Jesus Christ to pray. 

2 Follow to the judgment-hall, 

View the Lord of Life arraigned ; 
the wormwood and the gall ! 

the pangs His soul sustained i 
Shun not suffering, shame, or loss ; 
Learn of Him to bear the cross. 



3 Calvary's mournful mountain climb, 
There, adoring at His feet, 
Mark that miracle of time. 



God's own sacrifice complete : 
"It is finish'd ; " — hear the cry ; 
Learn of Jesus Christ to die. 

Early hasten to the tomb. 

Where they laid His breathless clay 
All is solitude and gloom ; 

Who hath taken Him away ? 
Christ is risen ! — He meets our eyes. 
Saviour, teach us so to rise. 



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HYMN LXI. 

Christ's Passion. 

\ The morning dawns upon the place 

Where Jesus spent the night in prayer ; 
Through yielding glooms behold His face, 
Nor form nor comeliness is there. 

2 Last eve, by those He called His own, 

Betray'd, forsaken, or denied, 
He met His enemies alone 

In all their malice, rage, and pride. 

3 Brought forth to judgment, now He stands 

Arraigned, condemned, at Pilate's bar : 

Here, spurn'd by fierce prastorian bands. 

There, mock'd by Herod's men of war. 

4 He bears their buffeting and scorn, 

Mock-homage of the lip and knee, 
The purple robe, the crown of thorn, 
The scourge, the nail, the accursed tree. 

5 No guile within His mouth is found. 

He neither threatens nor complains : 
Meek as a lanb for slaughter bound. 

Dumb 'midst His murderers He remains. 

6 But hark ! He prays, — 'tis for His foes ; 

He speaks, — tis comfort to His friends ; 
Answers, — and Paradise bestows ; 
He bows His head ; the conflict ends. 

7 Truly this was the Son of God ! 

Though in a servant's mean disguise ; 
And, bruised beneath the Father's rod. 
Not for Himself — for Man He dies. 



66 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN LXII. 

WTiat is Prayer f 

1 Prayer is the soul's sincere desire, 

Utter'd or unexpressed, 
The motion of a hidden fire 
That trembles in the breast. 

2 Prayer is the burthen of a sigh, 

The falling of a tear ; 
The upward glancing of an eye. 
When none but God is near. 

3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech 

That infant lips can try. 
Prayer the sublimest strains that reach 
The Majesty on high. 

4 Prayer is the contrite sinner's voice 

Keturning from his ways. 
While angels in their songs rejoice. 
And cry, '' Behold he prays ! " 

5 Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, 

The Christian's native air. 
His watchword at the gates of death ; 
He enters heaven with j^rayer. 

6 The saints in i3rayer appear as one 

In word, and deed, and mind, 
While with the Father and the Son 
Sweet fellowship they find. 

7 Nor pi-ayer is made by man alone, 

The Holy Spirit pleads. 
And Jesus, on the eternal throne, 
For sinners intercedes. 



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Thou by whom we come to God, 

The Hfe, the truth, the way ! 
The path of prayer Thyself hast trod ; 

Lord, teach us how to pray. 



HYMN LXIII. 

The Lorcfs Prayer. — I. 

1 Our heavenly Father ! hear our prayer ; 
Thy name be hallowed every where ; 
Thy Kingdom come ; Thy perfect will. 
In earth as heaven, may all fulfil ; — 

2 Give this day's bread, that we may live ; 
Forgive our sins as we forgive ; 

Lead us temptation's snares to shun, 
And save us from the Evil One : 

3 Now, and for ever, unto Thee, 
The kingdom, power, and glory be ! 
Thus, as our Saviour taught to say, 
In truth and spirit, let us pray. 



HYMN LXIV. 

Wants and Wishes in Prayer. 

1 What shall we ask of God in prayer ? 
Whatever good we want ; 
Whatever man may seek to share, 
And God in mercy grant. 



68 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

2 Father of all our mercies, Thou 

In whom we move and live, 
Hear us in heaven thy dwelling now, 
And answer and forgive. 

3 When, bound with sins and trespasses, 

From wrath we fain would flee. 
Lord, cancel our unrighteousness, 
And set the captive free. 

4 When, harassed by ten thousand foes, 

Our helplessness we feel, 

give the weary soul repose. 

The wounded spirit heal, 

5 When dire temptations gather round, 

And threaten or allure. 
By storm or calm, in Thee be found 
A refuge strong and sure. 

6 When age advances, may we grow 

In faith, and hope, and love. 
And walk in holiness below. 
To hohness above. 

7 When earthly joys and cares depart. 

Desire and envy cease, 
Be Thou the portion of our heart. 
In Thee may we have peace. 

8 When flames these elements destroy, 

And worlds in judgment stand. 
May we lift up our heads with joy. 
And meet at Thy right hand. 



OKIGINAL HYMNS. 69 

HYMN LXV. 

The Preparation of the Heart. 
Lord, teach us how to pray aright, 

With reverence and with fear ; 
Though dust and ashes in Thy sight, 

We may, we must draw near;. 
We perish if we cease from prayer ; 

Oh ! grant us power to pray ; 
And when to meet Thee we prepare. 

Lord, meet us by the way. 
Burdened with guilt, convinced of sin. 

In weakness, want, and woe, 
Fightings without, and fears within, 

Lord, whither shall we go ? 

GrOD of all grace, we bring to Thee 

A broken, contrite heart ; 
Give, what Thine eye delights to see, 

Truth in the inward part. 
Give deep humility ; the sense 

Of godly sorrow give ; 
A strong, desiring confidence 

To hear Thy voice and live ; — 
Faith in the only Sacrifice 

That can for sin atone ; 
To cast our hopes, to fix our eyes 

On Christ, on Christ alone ; — 
Patience to watch, and wait, and weep. 

Though mercy long delay ; 
Courage, our fainting souls to keep. 

And trust Thee though Thou slay. 



70 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

8 Give these, and then Thy will be done ; 
Thus, strenghen'd with all might, 
We, through Thy Spirit and Thy Son, 
Shall pray, and pray aright. 



HYMN LXVI. 

Bememhrance and Resolution. — ^Ps. Ixii. 

God ! Thou art my God alone ; 

Early to Thee my soul shall cry, 
A pilgrim in a land unknown, 

A thirsty land whose springs are dry. 

Oh ! that it were as it hath been. 
When, praying in the holy place. 

Thy power and glory I have seen. 

And mark'd the footsteps of Thy grace ! 

Yet through this rough and thorny maze, 
I follow hard on Thee, my God ! 

Thine hand unseen upholds my ways, 
I safely tread where Thou hast trod. 

Thee, in the watches of the night, 
When I remember on my bed, 

Thy presence makes the darkness light, 
Thy guardian wings are round my head. 

Better than life itself Thy love. 
Dearer than all beside to me ; 

For whom have I in heaven above, 

Or what on earth, compared with Thee ? 



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Praise with my heart, my mind, my voice, 
For all Thy mei'cy I will give ; 

My soul shall still in God rejoice, 

My tongue shall bless Thee while I live. 



HYMN LXYII. 

Asking, Seeking,^ Finding. — Matt. vii. 7, 8. 

1 Ask, and ye shall receive ; 

On this my hope I build : 
I ask forgiveness, and believe 
My prayer shall be fulfilled. 

2 Seek, and expect to find : 

Wounded to death in soul, 
I seek the Saviour of mankind ;• 
His touch can make me whole. 

3 Knock, and with patience wait. 

Faith shall free entrance win : 
I stand and knock at mercy's gate ; 
Lord Jesus ! let me in. 

4 How should I ask in vain ? 

Seek, and not find Thee, Lord ? 
Knock, and yet no admittance gain ? 
Is it not in Thy word .^ 

5 Time, ruin, change, decay, 

The lines can never blot. 
Though heaven and earth shall pass away, 
Thy Word, God ! shall not. 



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HYMN LXVIII. 

" Thou^ that Tiearest Prayer ! " — Ps. Ixv. 2. 

1 Thou, God, art a consuming fire. 

Yet mortals may find grace. 
From toil and tumult to retire. 
And meet Thee face to face. 

2 Though "Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord ! " 

Seraph to seraph sings, 
And angel-choirs, with one accord. 
Worship, with veiling wings ; — 

3 Though earth Thy footstool, heaven Thy 

throne. 
Thy way amidst the sea. 
Thy path deep floods. Thy steps unknown, 
Thy counsels mystery : — 

4 Yet wilt Thou look on him who lies 

A suppliant at Thy feet ; 
And hearken to the feeblest cries 
That reach Thy mercy-seat. 

5 Between the cherubim of old 

Thy glory was express'd ; 
But God, through Christ, we now behold 
In flesh made manifest. 

6 Through Him who all our sickness felt, 

Who all our sorrows bare. 
Through Him in whom Thy fulness dwelt 
We ofier up our prayer. 



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7 Toucli'cl with a feeling of our woes, 

Jesus, our High Priest stands ; 
All our infirmities He knows, 
Our souls are in His hands. 

8 He bears them up with strength divine, 

When at Thy feet we fall ; 
Lord, cause Thy face on us to shine ; 
Hear us, — on Thee we call. 



HYMN LXIX. 

Scriptural Prayers. 

1 With wandering Jacob, let us say — 
" If God will keep me by the way. 
Guide and defend me, clothe and feed, 
Then God shall be my God indeed." 

2 With Him who led the ransom'd flock 
Through the Eed Sea to Sinai's rock, 
Be this our one supreme request, 

" Thy presence with us go or rest." 

3 Join we God's people from our youth, 
Quit the vain world like humble Euth ; 
With them resolved our lot to try. 
Rejoice or suffer, live or die. 

4 Like Joshua through this war of life, 
Victor in many a deadly strife, 

May each this solemn j)ledge record, 
" I and my house will serve the Lord." 
4 



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5 When prayers and vows to heaven we make, 
The words of Solomon we'll take, 

Freely for every blessing call, 
Yet ask forgiveness with them all. 

6 And now, Lord om- God ! to Thee, 
This sum of our petition be, 

The language of Thy blessed Son, 
''Father ! Thy will, not mine, be done." 



HYMN LXX. 

Soloinoii's . Prayer for Wisdom. 

Almighty God, in humble prayer. 

To Thee our souls we Kft, 
Do Thou our waiting minds prepare 

For Thy most needful gift. 

We ask not golden streams of wealth, 

Along our path to flow. 
We ask not undecaying health, 

Nor length of j^ears below. 

We ask not honours which an hour 

May bring or take away ; 
We ask not pleasure, pomp, or power, 

Lest we should go astray. 

We ask for wisdom : — Lord, impart 
The knovdedge how to live ; 

A wise and understanding heart 
To all before Thee give. 



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5 For we, like children, born in sin, 

Know not till Thou hast taught, 
How to go out, or how come in, 
By word, or deed, or thought. 

6 The young remember Thee in youth, 

Before the evil days ; 
The old be guided by Thy truth. 
In Wisdom's pleasant ways. 



HYMN LXXI. 

Our Saviour'' s Prayers. 

Preamble. 
High Priest for sinners, Jesus, Lord ! 

Whom as a Man of Griefs I see, 
Thy prayers on earth, while I record, 

If still in heaven Thou pray'st for me, 
My soul, for thy souFs travail claim, 
I seek salvation in Thy name. 

Part I. 

1 Baptized as for the dead He rose, 

With prayer from Jordan's hallow'd flood, 
Ere long by persecuting foes, 

To be baptized in His own blood. 
The Father's voice proclaimed the Son, 
The spirit witness'd — These are One. 

2 Early He rose, ere dawn of day. 

And to a desert place withdrew ; 



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There was He wont to watch and pray, 

Until His locks were wet with dew, 
And birds below, and beams above, 
Had warn'd Him thence to works of love. 

3 At evening, when His toils were o'er, 

He sent the multitudes away, 
And on the mountain or the shore. 

All night remained to watch and pray. 
Till o'er His head the stars grew dim. 
When was the hour of rest for Him ? 

4 In field or city, while He taught. 

Oft went His spirit forth in sighs ; 
And when His mightiest deeds were wrought. 

To heaven he lifted up His eyes : 
He pray'd at Lazarus' grave and shed 
Tears with the word that waked the dead. 

5 When mothers brought their babes, He took 

The lambs into His arms, and pray'd ; 
On Tabor, His transfigured look. 

While praying, turn'd the sun to shade, 
And forms, too pure for human sight. 
Grew visible amidst that light. 

6 "0 Father ! save me from this hour. 

Yet for this hour to earth I came," 
He pray'd in weakness ; then with power 

Cried, " Father ! glorify Thy name ;" 
— " I have," a voice from heaven replied, 
" And still it shall be glorified." 



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Part II. 
For Peter, bold in speech and brave 

In act, yet in temptation frail, 
(As once he proved when on the wave), 
Christ pray'd lest his weak faith should 
fail ; 
And when by Satan's snare enthrall'd, 
His eye the wanderer recalFd. 

Amidst His mournful family. 

Who soon must see His face no more, 
With what divine discourse did He 

Strength to their fainting souls restore ! 
Then pray'd for^ all His people, — w^here 
Have words recorded such a prayer ? 

Next, with strong cries and bitter tears, 
Thrice hallow'd He that doleful ground, 

Where, trembling with mysterious fears. 
His sweat, like blood-drops, fell around, 

And, being in an agony. 

He prayed yet more earnestly. 

Here oft in spirit let me kneel, 

Share in the speechless griefs I see. 

And, while He felt what I should feel. 
Feel all His power of love to me, 

Break my hard heart, and grace supply 

For Hira, who died for me, to die. 

Stretch'd on the ignominious tree. 

For those, whose hands had nail'd Him 
there. 



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Who stood and mock'd His misery, 
He offer'd up his latest prayer ; 
Then with the voice of victory cried, 
" Tis iinish'd ! " bow'd His head, and died. 

6 There all His prayers were answer'd ; — all 

The fruits of His soul's travail gain'd ; 
The cup of wormwood and of gall, 

Down to the dregs His lips had clrain'd ; 
Accomplished w^as the Eternal plan. 
He tasted death for every man. 

7 Now by the throne of God He stands, 

AlotL the golden censer bears. 
And offers, with high priestly hands. 

Pure incense with his |)eople's prayers ; 
Well pleased the Father eyes the Son, 
And says to each request, " Tis done ! " 



HYMN LXXII. 

Prayer for Increase of Holy Wisdom. 

1 FOR the wisdom from above. 

Pure, gentle, jjeaceable, and mild. 
The innocency of the dove. 
The meekness of a little child. 

2 Wise may we be to know the truth, 

Keveal'd in every Scripture page ; 
Wise to salvation from our youth. 
And wiser grow from stage to stage. 



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3 Then if to riper years we rise, 

And well the work of grace be wrought 
Within ourselves, — we shall be wise 
To teach in turn what we were taught. 

4 Yet still be learning, day by day, ^ 

More of God's Word, God's way, God's 
will ; 
His law, rejoicing to obey, 

Pleas'd His whole pleasure to fulfill, 

5 Wise to win souls, if thus we're led, 

How blest will be our lot below. 
Blessings to share, and blessings shed 
On all with whom to heaven we go 

6 So may we reach that home at length, 

And, clad in righteousness divine. 
Even as the sun, when in his strength. 
And as the stars, for ever, shine. 



HYMN LXXIII. 

Pleading in Prayer. 

1 How shall a contrite spirit pray, 

A broken heart its griefs make known, 
A weary wanderer find the way 

To peace and rest ? — Through Christ 
alone. 

2 He died that we might die to sin ; 

He rose, that we to God might rise ; 
By His own blood He enter'd in 
The holy place beyond the skies. 



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3 There, as our great High Priest He stands, 

And j)leads before the Mercy-seat, 
Our cause is in His faithful hands, 
Our enemies beneath his feet. 

4 Father, in Him we claim our part, 

For Thy Son's sake accept us now, 
In Him well-pleased Thou always art, 
Well pleased with us through Him be 
Thou. 

5 look on thine anointed One ; 

Thy gift in Him is all our plea, 
Our righteousness, — what He hath done ; 
Our prayer — His prayer for us to Thee, 

6 So, while He intercedes above. 

In His dear name may we believe, 
And all the fulness of Thy love 
Into our inmost souls receive. 



HYMN LXXIV. 

Perseverance in Prayer. 

Patient prayer has power with God ; 
Thus, while Moses raised the rod, 
Israel o'er the foe prevailed. 
But grew feeble when he faiFd, 
Till, by Hur and Aaron's care, 
Intercession held up Prayer. 

Pray ye, pray and never faint, 
Mourning Sinner, tempted Saint ! 



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Faith and Hope your hands sustain, 
Victory then ye must obtain, 
Yea, and more than conquerors prove 
Through your great Kedeemer's love. 



HYMN LXXY. 

The Name above every Rame. 

Bow every knee at Jesus' name, 

And every tongue confess ; 
Let the Redeem'd with joy proclaim 

" The Lord our Kighteousness.'' 

To Him through all the rounds of time 

Perpetual prayer be made ; 
O'er sea and land, from clime to clime, 

Homage to Him be paid. 

From young and old with every breath 
Let prayer and praise arise ; 

Life be the " daily offering " — Death 
" The evening sacrifice." 

Let heaven and earth reply " Amen ! " 

And all their hosts adore 
The Lord of Angels and of men 

For ever evermore. 



HYMN LXXYI. 

The Confidence of Prayer. — Matt. xiv. 22. 

1 Why thus, my soul, cast down ? 
And why disquieted ? 



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Black though the tempest frown, 
The surge pass o'er thy head ; 
Wait the fourth watch ; — for One who saves 
Comes to thee, walking on the waves. 

2 Lord ! Lord ! if it be Thou, 

Bid me come down to Thee ; 
Jesus ! I know Thee now, 

And walk upon the sea ; 
Faith fails ; ah me ! the gulf runs high, 
Save, Lord, I sink ! save, I die ! 

3 I grasp thy outstretched hand ; 

We climb the vessel's side ; 
And lo ! we touch the land. 

The storm is pacified ; 
While winds and waves thy voice obey. 
Oh ! why am I more deaf than they ? 

4 Why, when I know Thy will 

Is my salvation. Lord, 
When Thou says't ''Peace, be still ! " 

How can I doubt Thy word ? 
Speak with that all-commanding might. 
Which said to darkness, — '' Be thou light ! " 

5 Speak with that power, which said 

To Peter, '' Follow me ! " 
Caird Lazarus from the dead ; 

Then must I yield to Thee, 
For Thee, like Peter, all forsake, 
Like Lazarus, from the dead awake. 



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HYMN LXXVII. 

For Acceptance in Prayer^ and daily Guidance. — ^Ps. cxli. 

1 Lord, let my prayer like incense rise, 

And when I lift my hands to Thee, 
As on the evening sacrifice [me. 

Look down from heaven well-pleased on 

2 Set Thou a watch to keep my tongue, 

Let not my heart to sin incline ; 
Save me from men who practise wrong, 
Let me not share their mirth and wine. 

3 But let the righteous, when I stray, 

Smite me in love, — his strokes are kind ; 
His mild reproofs, like oil, allay 

The wounds they make, and heal the mind. 

4 Mine eyes are unto Thee, my God ! 

Behold me humbled in the dust ; 

I kiss the hand that wields the rod, 

I own thy chastisements are just. 

5 But ! redeem me from the snares 

With which the world surrounds my feet, 
Its riches, vanities, and cares. 
Its love, its hatred, its deceit. 



HYMN LXXVIII. 

Closet Prayer. — Matt. vi. 6. 

! WHAT a privilege to kneel. 

Fall down and worship at thy feet, 

My God ! my Father ! and to feel 
With Thee communion high and sweet 



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2 To pour my S23irit out in prayer, 

Or, on the wings of praise ascend, 
Like Moses to the Mount, and there 

Commune with Thee, as friend with friend. 



HYMN LXXIX. 

Daily Prayer. — Luke xviii. 1. 

1 Come to the Morning Prayer, • 

Come let us kneel and pray ; 
Prayer is the Christian pilgrim's staff 
To walk with God all day. 

2 At noon, beneath the Kock 

Of Ages, rest and pray ; 
Sweet is that shadow from the heat, 
When the sun smites by day. 

3 At eve, shut to the door. 

Round the home-altar pray, 
And finding there " the House of God,' 
At '' heaven's gate " close the day. 

4 When midnight seals our eyes, 

Let each in spirit say, 
'' I sleep, but my heart waketh, Lord, 
With Thee to watch and pray." 



HYMN LXXX. 

A prayer for every Day and all Day long. 

1 In the morning hear my voice, 
Let me in thy light rejoice ; 



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God, my Sun ! m}^ strength renew, 
Send thy blessing down Kke dew. 

2 Through the duties of the day, 
Qrant me grace to watch and pray ; 
Live as always seeing Thee, 
Knowing, " Thou, God ! seest me/' 

3 When the evening skies display 
Eicher pomp than noon's array. 
Be the shades of death to me 
Bright with immortality. 

4 When the round of care is run. 
And the stars succeed the sun, 
Songs of praise with prayer unite. 
Crown the day, and hail the night. . 

5 Thus with thee, my God ! my Friend ! 
Time begin, continue, end, 

While life's joys and sorrows pass 
Like the changes of the grass. 



HYMN LXXXI. 

An Edening Thought. — Ps. iv. 

While many cry in natiu-e's night 

Ah ! who will show the way to bliss ? 
Lord, lift on us thy saving light ; 

We seek no other guide than tliis. 
Gladness Thy sacred presence brings. 

More than the joyful reaper knows ; 
Or he who treads the grapes and sings 

While with new wine his vat o'erfiows. 



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3 In peace I lay me down to sleep ; 

Thine arm, Lord ! shall stay my head, 
Thine Angel sj)read his tent, and keep 
His midnight watch around my bed. 



HYMN LXXXII. 

Fervent Supj^lication. — Ps. cxxx. 

1 Out of the depths of woe, 

To Thee, Lord ! I cry ; 
Darkness surrounds me, but I know 
That Thou art ever nigh. 

2 Then hearken to my voice. 

Give ear to my complaint ; 
Thou -bidst the mourning soul rejoice, . 
Thou comfortest the faint. 

3 I cast my hope on Thee, 

Thou canst. Thou wilt forgive ; 
Wert Thou to mark iniquity. 
Who in thy sight could live ? 

4 Humbly on Thee I wait, 

Confessing all my sin ; 
Lord, I am knocking at thy gate, 
Open and take me in. 

5 Like them, whose longing eyes 

Watch till the morning-star [rise, 

(Though late and seen through tempests) 
Heaven's portals to unbar : — 

6 Like them I watch and pray, 

And, though it tarry long, 



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Catch the first gleam of welcome day, 
Then burst into a song, 

7 Glory to God above ! 

The waters soon will cease, 
For lo ! the swift-returning dove 
Brings home the sign of peace. 

8 Though storms his face obscure. 

And dangers threaten loud, 
Jehovah's covenant is sure ; 
His bow is in the cloud. 



HYMN LXXXIII. 

For Grace to surrender all to Christ. 

Jesus, our best-beloved friend, 

Draw out our souls in pure desire, 
Jesus, in love to us descend, 

Baptize us with thy Spirit's fire. 
On thy Redeeming name we call, 

Poor and unworthy though we be : 
Pardon and sanctify us all ; 

Let each thy full salvation see. 
Our souls and bodies we resign. 

To fear and follow thy commands ; 
take our hearts — our hearts are thine. 

Accept the service of our hands. 
Firm, faithful, watching unto prayer. 

May we Thy blessed will obey ; 
Toil in Thy vineyard here, and bear 

The heat and burden of the day. 



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5 Yet, Lord, for us a resting-place, 

In heaven at thy right hand prepare 
And till we see Thee face to face, 
Be all our conversation there. 



HYMN LXXXIV. 

For the Gift of the Holy Spirit. 

Power from on high, God, impart, 
Power in thy gospel to helieve ; 

Power to surrender our whole heart. 
Power all thy mercy to receive. 

The Word to us in vain were given. 
We hear, we read, we learn in vain ; 

In vain thy Son came down from heaven. 
If thou '^ the Spuit's might '' restrain. 

Here be His sacred influence felt. 

With searching, cleansing, quickening 
force. 

Till souls of millstone-hardness melt. 
And flow like waters from their source. 

Convinced and humbled in the dust 
Beneath the burden of our guilt. 

We own Thy law's dread sentence just. 
But plead the blood of pardon spilt. 

Thy Spirit witness with that blood. 
And Christ our Saviour glorify ; 

While we, as children born of God, 
With rapture, " Abba ! Father ! " cry. 



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HYMN LXXXY 

Resignation. 

One prayer I have, — all prayers in one, 

When I am wholly Thine ; 
Thy will, my God, Thy will be clone. 

And let that will be mine. 
All-wise, all-mighty, and all-good. 

In Thee I firmly trust ; 
Thy ways, unknown or understood. 

Are merciful and just. 
Is life with many comforts crown'd. 

Upheld in peace and health. 
With dear affections twined around. 

Lord, in my time of wealth, — 
May I remember, that to Thee, 

Whate'er I have I owe ; 
And back in gratitude from me, 

May all Thy bounties flow. 
Thy gifts are only then enjoy 'd, 

When used as talents lent ; 
Those talents only well employed, 

When in Thy service spent. 
And though Thy wisdom takes away, 

Shall I arraign Thy will ? 
No, let me bless Thy name, and say, 

'' The Lord is gracious still.'' 
A pilgrim through the earth I roam, 

Of nothing long possest. 
And all must fail when I go home, 

For this is not my rest. 



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8 Write but my name upon the roll 
Of Thy redeem' cl above, 
Then heart, and mind, and strength and soul, 
111 love Thee for Thy love. 



HYMN LXXXVI. 

Exhortation to Praise and ThanTcsgiving. 

1 Stand up, and bless the Lord, 

Ye people of His choice : 
Stand up, and bless the Lord your God 
With heart, and soul, and voice. 

2 Though high above all praise, 

Above all blessing high. 
Who would not fear his Holy name, 
. And laud and magnify ? 

3 for the living flame. 

From His own altar brought, 
To touch our lips, our minds inspire, 
And wing to heaven our thought ! 

4 There, with benign regard. 

Our hymns He deigns to hear ; 
Though unrevealed to mortal sense, 
The spirit feels him near. 

5 GrOD is our strength and song. 

And His salvation ours ; 
Then be his love in Christ proclaim'd 
With all our ransom'd powers. 



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6 Stand up and bless the Lord, 
The Lord your G-od adore ; 
Stand up, and bless His glorious name 
Henceforth for evermore. 



HYMN LXXXVIL 

Exhortation to universal Praise and Thanlcsgimng .— 
Ps. cxvii. 

1 All ye gentiles, praise the Lord, 

All ye lands, your voices raise ; 

Heaven and earth, with loud accord, 

Praise the Lord, for ever praise. 

2 For His truth and mercy stand, 

Past, and present, and to be, 
Like the years of His right hand, 
Like His own eternity. 

3 Praise Him, ye who know his love. 

Praise Him from the depths beneath, 
Praise Him in the heights above ; 
Praise your Maker all that breathe. 



HYMN LXXXVIII. 

The Lord of Hosts.— Ps. xlvi. 

1 Come, and behold the works of God, 
What desolations He will make ; 
In vengeance when He wields His rod. 
The heathen rage, their kingdoms quake ; 



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He utters forth His voice ; — ^tis felt ; 
Like wax the world's foundations melt ; 
The Lord of Hosts is in the field, 
The GrOD of Jacob is our shield. 

2 Again He maketh wars to cease, 

He breaks the bow, unpoints the spear, 
And burns the chariot ; — joy and peace 
In all His glorious march appear : 
Silence, Earth ! Thy Maker own ; 
Ye gentiles. He is God alone ; 
The Lord of Hosts is in the field, 
The God of Jacob is our shield. 



HYMN LXXXIX. 

The Song of Songs. 

Come let us sing the song of songs. 
The song which saints in glory sing ; 

The homage which to Christ belongs. 
To-day let babes and sucklings bring. 

Youth in its prime, and failing Age, 
With hearts and voices swell the strain. 

To cheer their steps on pilgrimage, 

"Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain \" 

Slain to redeem us by His blood. 
To cleanse from every sinful stain. 

And make us kings and priests to God, 
"Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain ! " 

To Him who sufter'd on the tree, 
Our souls at His soul's price to gain, 



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Blessing, and praise, and glory be : 

" Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain ! '* 

To Him, enthroned by filial right, 

All power in heaven and earth pertain, 

Honour, and majesty, and might : 

" Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain ! " 

Come, Holy Spirit, from on high. 

Our faith, our hope, our love sustain, 

Living to sing, and dying cry, 

" Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain ! " 

Yea, in eternity of bliss. 

If caird through grace with Him to reign, 
Our song — our song of songs, be this, 

" Worthy the Lamb, for He was slain ! " 



HYMN XC. 

Glory to God in the HigTiest. — Luke ii. 13 

Songs of praise the angels sang, 
Heaven with hallelujahs rang. 
When Jehovah's work begun, 
When He spake, and it was done. 

Songs of praise awoke the morn, 
When the Prince of Peace was born : 
Songs of praise arose, when He 
Captive led captivity. 

Heaven and earth must pass away, 
Songs of praise shall crown that day ; 
God will make new heavens, new earth, 
Songs of praise shall hail their birth. 



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4 And can man alone be dumb, 
Till that glorious kingdom come ? 
No ; — the Church delights to raise 
Psalms, and hymns, and songs of praise. 

5 Saints below, with heart and voice, 
Still in songs of praise rejoice ; 
Learning here, by faith and love, 
Songs of praise to sing above. 

6 Borne upon their latest breath, 
Songs of praise shall conquer death ; 
Then, amidst eternal joy. 

Songs of praise their powers employ. 



HYMN XCI. 

Angels with Men^ rejoicing in God. 

Give glory to the Lord, 

Extol His holy name. 
Let men and angels' tongues record 

His everlasting fame. 

While we His love relate. 
Who saves the lost from hell, 

ye who kept your first estate. 
His sovereign power forth tell ! 

Among our fallen race. 

The living yet are we ; 
This is our day, — our day of grace, 

The last we e'er may see. 

Confess we then our sin. 
Repent, believe and pray : 



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Strive the straight gate to enter in, 
And force the narrow way. 

The Lord clehghts to bless 

The vahant for the truth, 
And crown their age with happiness, 

Who serve Him from their youth. 

Angels, while ye on high 

Kejoice o'er ransom'd men ; 
" The lost is found,'' we too would cry, 

" The dead alive ao-ain." 



HYMN XOII. 

God unive7'sally worshipped. 

1 All Thy works, with one accord 
Magnify Thee, mighty Lord ! 
While the heavens Thy glory show, 
Earth extols Thy love below. 

2 Day to day doth utter speech. 
Night to night Thy knowledge teach : 
Nature's universal frame 

Answers — " Hallow'd be Thy name." 

3 Life, through all its breathing forms. 
Death, from darkness, dust, and worms, 
In ten thousand wondrous ways. 
Fearfully set forth Thy praise. 

4 Here, the lips of Infancy 
Sweet Hosannas sing to Thee ; 
Youth and Age, in louder lays, 
Joyful Hallelujahs raise. 



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5 While adoring Seraphim 
Thine eternal Grodhead hymn, 
Saints redeem'd, with glory crown'd. 
Calvary's cross, won triumphs sound. 

6 May Thy Church from age to age, 
In her house of pilgrimage, 

Train for Thee her convert-throngs, 
And thy statutes be their songs. 



HYMN XCIII. 

Te Deum laudamus. 

God ! we praise Thee, and we own, 

Thou art the Lord, and Thou alone ; 

Let the whole earth Thy name adore, 

Father of all ! for evermore. 

Thee, — Cherubim and Seraphim, 

The heavens and all the powers therein, 

Thee — angels laud with voices high. 

And Holy ! Holy ! Holy ! cry. 

Lord God of Hosts ! whose splendours shine 

Through heaven and earth, for these are Thine, 

The apostles' glorious company. 

The prophets' fellowship, praise Thee ; 

The martyrs' noble army raise 

To Thee triumphant songs of praise ; 

The holy Church ascribes to Thee | 

Eternal power and majesty ; 

Father of ages unbegun. 

Thine only, true, anointed Son, 

And, sent by Him from Thee to Her, 

The Holy Ghost, the Comforter. 



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Hail, King of Glory ! Christ the Lord, 

God's everlasting Son, — the Word ! 

Thou, to retrieve man's mortal doom, 

Didst not abhor the Virgin's womb ; 

And, having overcome, for us. 

Death's sharpness, on the accursed cross, 

Open'dst heaven's kingdom, to receive 

All those who in Thy name believe. 

At God's right hand, exalted there, 

Thou dost the Father's glory share ; 

And thence, we know, when comes the end, 

Thou wilt, to be our Judge, descend. 

Help, Lord, Thy servants, that we may 

Find mercy in that dreadful day ; 

Redeem 'd with Thy most precious blood, 

And number'd with Thy saints, who stood 

Firm in the faith, may we be found. 

In glory everlasting, crown'd, 

Thy people save, — from age to age, 

Govern and bless Thine heritage ; 

Daily we magnify Thy name. 

World without end Thy praise proclaim. 

Vouchsafe this day to keep from sin 

Our going out, and coming in : 

Lord ! have mercy on us all, 

Have mercy on us when we call ; 

Thy mercy. Lord, to us extend. 

On Thee alone our hopes depend ; 

Lord, we have put our trust in Thee, 

Confounded let us never be. 



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HYMN XCIV. 

Hallelujah. 

1 Hark ! the song of Jubilee ; 

Loud as mighty thunders roar, 
Or the fulness of the sea, 

When it breaks upon the shore : 
Hallelujah ! for the Lord 

God Omnipotent, sliall reign ; 
Hallelujah ! let the word 

Echo round the earth and main. 

2 Hallelujah ! — hark ! the sound 

From the depths unto the skies, 
Wakes above, beneath, around. 

All creation's harmonies ; 
See Jehovah's banner furl'd, 

Sheath'd His sword : He speaks — 'tis 
done. 
And the Kingdoms of this world 

Are the Kingdoms of His Son. 

3 He shall reign from pole to pole 

With illimitable sway ; 
He shall reign, wdien like a scroll 

Yonder heavens have passed away : 
Then the end ; — ^beneath His rod, 

Man's last enemy shall fall ; 
Hallelujah ! Christ in God, 

God in Christ, is all in all. 



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^^ HYMN XCV. 

^ The Lord's Day. 

1 This is the day the Lord hath made, 

Let young and old rejoice ; 
To Him be vows and homage paid, 
Whose service is our choice. 

2 This is the temple of the Lord, 

How dreadful is this place ! 
With meekness let us hear His word. 
With reverence seek His face. 

3 This is the homage He requires, — 

The voice of praise and prayer, 
The soul's affections, hopes, desires, 
Ourselves and all we are. 

4 While rich and poor for mercy call. 

Propitious from the skies. 
The Lord, the Maker of them all. 
Accepts the sacrifice. 

5 Well-pleased through Jesus Christ His Son^ 

From sin he grants release ; 
According to their faith 'tis done. 
He bids them go in peace. 



HYMN XCVL 

Longing for the Courts of the LoriVs Home. — Ps. xlii. 

1 As the hart, with eager looks, 
Panteth for the water-brooks, 



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So my soul, athirst for Thee, ^ ^ • 
Pants the living God to see : * ' ^ 

When, when, with filial fear, -O 

Lord, shall I to Thee draw near ? 

2 Tears my food by night, by day. 
Grief consumes my strength away ; 
While his craft the Tempter plies, 

" Where is now Thy God ? " he cries ; 
This would sink me to des23air 
But I pour my soul in prayer. 

3 For, in happier times, I went. 
Where the multitude frequent ; 
I, with them, was wont to bring 
Homage to Thy courts, my King ! 
I with them was wont to raise 
Festal hymns on holy days. 

4 Why art thou cast down, my soul ! 
God, thy God, shall make thee whole : 
Why art thou disquieted ? 

God shall lift thy fallen head ; 
And his countenance benign 
Be the saving health of thine. 



HYMN XCVII. 

Preparation for Public Worship. 

1 How shall we come before the Lord ? 
And how approach to the Most High ? 
Met in His house with one accord, 
At His commandment we draw nigh. 



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Not hecatombs he now reqmres, 

The daily blood of slaughtered beasts ; 

Quench'd are the ancient altar fires, 
Extinct the line of tyjjic priests. 

Man's only Mediator stands 

Before the Father's throne to plead 

His sole atonement : in his hands 
Our cause is safe ; it must succeed. 

The broken heart in sacrifice, 
The contrite spirit let us bring. 

For Thou, God ! wilt not despise 
Thine own appointed ofiering. 



HYMN XCVIII. 

For Divine Blessing on the Ministry of the Word, 

1 Assembled in Thy house of prayer, 

On every mind instruction seal ; 
Preacher and people, Lord, prepare 
To seek Thy face, Thy presence feel. 

2 From earthen vessels we receive 

The living streams of truth divine ; 
The spirit with the letter give. 
And turn the water into wine. 

3 Enter we now Thy gates with praise. 

With reverence at Thine altar bend. 
With gladness our thanksgivings raise, 
With meekness to Thy Word attend. 



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4 So, when the gospel, in Thy name, 

From hmnan hps sakites our ear. 
May our responding hearts exclaim, 

" Speak to us. Lord ; Thy servants hear." 

5 Paul then may plant the precious grain. 

For Thine will be the quickening power ; 
ApoUos water, not in vain, 

For Thou wilt give the genial shower. 

6 The scatter'd seed thus sown in hope 

Shall spring and spread with large increase, 
And yield on earth a heavenly crop 
Of love, joy, righteousness and peace. 



HYMN XCIX. 

For a solemn AssemNy. 

1 Command thy blessing from above^ 

God ! on all assembled here ; 
Behold us with a father's love, 
While we look up with filial fear. 

2 Command Thy blessing, Jesus ! Lord ! 

May we Thy true disciples be ; 
Speak to each heart the mighty Word, 
Say to the weakest, "Follow me." 

3 Command Thy blessing in this hour, 

S|)irit of Truth ! and fill this j)lace 
With humbling and with healing power, 
With killing and with quickening grace. 



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Thou, our Maker, Saviour, Guide, 

One true eternal God confest ! 
Whom thou hast join'd let none divide. 

None dare to curse whom thou hast blest. 
With thee and these for ever found, { 

May all the souls who here unite. 
With harps and songs thy throne surround, 

Kest in thy love and reign in light. 



HYMN 0. 

For the Peace and Prosperity of the Church. — Ps. cxxii. 

1 Glad was my heart to hear 

My old companions say, 
Come, — in the House of God appear. 
For 'tis an holy day. 

2 Our willing feet shall stand 

Within the temple-door. 
While young and old in many a band 
Shall throng the sacred floor. 

3 Thither the tribes repair. 

Where all are wont to meet. 
And joyful in the House of Prayer 
Bend at the Mercy-seat. 

4 Pray for Jerusalem, 

The city of our God ; 
The LoED from Heaven be kind to them 
That love the dear abode. 

5 Within these walls may peace 

And harmony be found : 
Zion, in all thy palaces, 
Prosperity abound. 



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6 Gocl scorns not humble things ; 

These, though the proud despise, 
The children of the King of kings, 
Are training for the skies. 

7 May none who thus are taught. 

From glory be cast down, 
But all through faith and patience brought 
To an eternal crown. 

8 For friends and brethren dear, 

Our prayer shall never cease. 
Oft as they meet for worship here, 
God send his people peace. 



HYMN CI. 

Ps. cxxii. 7 — 9. 

1 God in his temple let us meet : 

Low on our knees before Him bend. 
Here hath He fix'd his Mercy-seat, 
Here on his worship we attend. 

2 Arise into thy resting-place. 

Thou, and thine ark of strength, Lord ! 
Shine through the veil, we seek Thy face ; 
Speak, for we hearken to Thy word. 

3 With righteousness Thy priests array ; 

Joyful Thy chosen people be ; 
Let those who teach, and hear, and pray. 
Let all be Holiness to Thee. 



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HYMN CTI. 

Sabbath worship in the Sanctioary. 

1 Again, on this rejoicing day, 

God's people in his temple meet, 
To learn his will, — to praise and pray, — 
For praise is comely, prayer is sweet : 

2 And meek obedience to his will 

Is perfect freedom to their mind, 
Who love his service and fulfil, 

With heart and hand, the work assigned. 

3 One day. Lord GtOD ! within thy courts, 

Is better than a thousand spent 
In vain delights, or wanton sports. 
That leave remorse and discontent. 

4 Rather well choose the lowest place, 

The keepers of Thy doors to be. 
Than dwell where sinners, void of grace, 
Forget themselves, forgetting Thee. 

5 Our willing souls we now would yield 

To Thee, as Thine alone to live, 
Assured Thou wilt, our sun and shield. 
No good withhold, — all blessing give. 

6 So, from Thy sanctuary shower 

On young and old, with large increase, 
Thy heavenly gifts, and from this hour. 
Lord ! send prosperity and peace. 



HYMN cm. 

Public Worshi]). 

1 Father of Jesus Christ our Lord, 

Our Father too through Him art Thou, 



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Met in his Name, with one accord. 
Own and accept thy Children now. 

2 A part of Thy great family, 

Who in Thy House have found their home, 
Here it is good for us to be ; 

Hence let no more our footsteps roam. 

3 All we like sheep have gone astray, 

Scatter'd, and torn, and tempest-tost, 
Each one had turn'd to his own way, 
And each in his own way was lost. 

4 But the good Shepherd from above 

Came down into the wilderness, 
In his omnipotence of love, 

To seek and save, to heal and bless. 

5 He caird us with His gentle voice. 

Now to that call may w^e reply. 
And make His staff and rod our choice. 
Amidst His flock to live and die. 

6 For His soul's travail may He see 

Our names with His redeemed enrolled, 
At that great day, when there shall be. 
In Heaven, one Shepherd and one fold. 



HYMN CIV. 

Spiritual Worship. 

1 With reverence and with godly fear. 
Father of mercies ! may we now 
In spirit and in truth draw near, 
And humbly at thy footstool bow. 



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2 Sucli worshippers Thon dost require, 

Such, round Thine aUar make us all ; 
Thou, God, that answerest by fire ! 
Let that baptismal blessing fall. 

3 All gods beside Thee we disown. 

Henceforth all idols we forsake ; 
Thou Lord art God, thou, Lord, alone ; 
Thy vows upon our souls we take. 

4 Bind Thou in Heaven what thus we bind 

On earth, in great infirmity. 
But put Thy laws within our mind. 

These shall our strength, our safeguard be. 

5 We seek salvation, in the name 

Of Jesus thy beloved Son ; 
We plead His prayer ; we urge His claim ; 
With Thee and Him let us be One. 

6 Now, while in fellowship we meet, 

The earnest of thy Spirit send. 
And here our union to complete. 
Seal it on high, world without end. 



HYMN CV. 

The Courts of the Lorcfs House. 

How amiable, how fair, 

Lord of Hosts ! to me 
Thy tabernacles are ! 

My flesh cries out for Thee ; 
My heart and soul, with heavenward fire, 
To Thee, the living God, aspire. 



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2 The sparrow finds a place 

To build her little nest, 
The swallows' wandering race 

Hither return to rest ; 
Beneath Thy roof their young ones cry, 
And round Thine Altar learn to fly. 

3 Thrice blessed they who dwell 

Within Thy house, my God ! 
Where daily praises swell, 

And still the floor is trod 
By those, who in Thy presence bow ; 
By those whose King and God art Thou. 

4 Through Baca's arid vale. 

As pilgrims when they pass 
The well-springs never fail ; 

Fresh rain renews the grass ; 
From strength to strength they journey still, 
Till all appear on Zion's hill. 

5 Lord God of Hosts ! give ear, 

A gracious answer yield ; 
God of Jacob ! hear ; 

Behold, God ! our shield ; 
Look on Thine own Anointed One, 
And save through thy beloved Son. 

6 Lord, I would rather stand 

A keeper at Thy gate. 
Than on the king's right hand 

In tents of earthly state ; 
One day within Thy courts, one day 
Is worth a thousand cast away. 



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God is a sun of light, 

Glory and grace to shed , 
God is a helm of might 

To guard the faithful head. 
Lord of Hosts ! how happy he, 
The man who puts his trust in Thee. 



HYMN CVI. 

Waiting iqmn God in His Rouse. 

1 All hearts are open to Thy view, 

All things are naked in Thy sight ; 
Now may the Eye that looks us through, 
Show us ourselves in its pure light. 

2 Then, while with awe we look to Thee, 

The High, the Holy One, the Just, 
With self-abhorrence. Lord, may we 
Repent in ashes and in dust. 

3 But, lest we perish in Thine ire, 

— For woe are we, unclean, undone^ 
Our God is a consuming fire, — 

May we behold Thee through Thy Son. 

4 In Him love, mercy, truth, and grace, 

The fulness of the Godhead dwells ; 
And the bright shining of His face 
Darkness, and doubt, and fear dispels. 

5 So be it : — round Thy throne we meet. 

With faith and hope, in self-despair. 
To pour our souls out at Thy feet ; 

Hear us, — Thou that hearest prayer ! 



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HYMN CVII. 

For the great Congregation. 

1 God is in His holy temple, 

All the earth keep silence here ; 
Worship Him in truth and spirit, 

Keverence Him with godly fear ; 
Holy, holy, 
Lord of Hosts, our Lord, appear. 

2 God in Christ reveals His presence. 

Throned upon the Mercy-seat : 
Saints, rejoice ! and sinners, tremble ! 
Each prepare his God to meet : 

Lowly, lowly. 
Bow adoring at His feet. 

3 Hail Him here with songs of praises, 

Him with prayers of faith surround ; 
Hearken to His glorious gospel, 

While the preacher's lips expound ; 

Blessed, blessed, 
They who know the joyful sound. 

4 Though the heaven, and heaven of heavens, 

Thou Great Unsearchable ! 
Are too mean to comprehend Thee, 
Thou with man art pleased to dwell ; 

Welcome, welcome, 
God with us, Immanuel. 



HYMN CVIII 

For Grace to Tcnow ourselves. 

1 Here young and old, here great and small, 
Here rich and poor together meet : 



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The Lord, the Maker of them all, 
Gives audience from the Mercy-seat. 

While faith may see Him eye to eye, 
And guilt in vain would shun the light, 

The hidden things of darkness lie 
Naked and open to His sight. 

Not as to others we may seem. 

Who look but on the outward guise ; 

Or of ourselves we fondly dream, 
A foohsh people and imwise : — 

But what we are in heart and soul, 
His sin-abhorring eyes discern ; 

On Him we wait, the true, the whole 
Sad secret of ourselves to learn. 

Taught by His Son, may we believe 
In Him our Father reconciled ; 

Led by His Spirit, each receive 
His kingdom as a little child. 

With reverence, then, and godly fear, 
While prayer and praise onr tongues employ, 

that we all may now draw near 
To God, as our exceeding joy ! 



HYMN CIX. 

The Communion of Saints. — Heb. xii. 18 — 26. 

Not to the Mount that burn'd with fire. 
To darkness, tempest, and the sound 

Of trumpet sounding higher and higher. 
Nor voice of words that rent the ground. 



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While Israel heard with trembling awe 
Jehovah thunder forth His law : — 

2 But to Mount Zion we are coine^ 

The city of the living God^ 
Jerusalem our heavenly home, 

The courts by angel-legions trod ; 
Where meet in everlasting love 
The Church of the first-born above : — 

3 To God, the judge of quick and dead, 

The perfect spirits of the just, 
Jesus, our great new covenant Head, 

The blood of sprinkling, — from the dust, 
That better things than Abel's cries, 
And pleads a Saviour's sacrifice. 

4 hearken to the healing voice, 

That speaks from heaven, in tones so mild ; 
To-day, are fife and death our choice ; 

To-day, through mercy reconciled, 
Our all to God we yet may give ; 
Now let us hear His voice, and live. 



HYMN ex. 

The Covenant of Peace renewed deticeen Christians. 

1 The peace of God surpassing thought, 

From heaven into our minds come down ; 
That peace on earth which Jesus brought, 
When for the cross He left his crown : — 

2 That peace with God, which Jesus made, 

Our daysman and our surety He, 



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Whose outstretch'd hands on both were laid, 
The sinner and the Deity : — 

3 That peace be ours ; so shall we prove, 

As faith, and hope, and love increase, 
That Christ's discijjles live and move 
In the pure element of peace. 

4 Assembling here, an humble band. 

Our covenantal pledge to take, 
We pass the cup from hand to hand, 
From heart to heart, for His dear sake. 

5 Jesus, Thyself to us draw nigh. 

And speak Thy salutation-word, 
Say '^ Peace be with you ! " while we cry, 
Like those of old,—" It is the Lord ! " 

6 Our Lord ! our God ! Thy Spirit's seal 

Impress on our recorded vow, 
And may our peaceful lives reveal 
The truth of what we witness now. 



HYMN CXI. 

For Christ-lil'eness. 

Son of the living God, display 

Thy glory in this place, 
W liile for new hearts, new souls we pray, 

And early seek Thy face. 

Wert Thou obedient unto death, 

That we might never die ? 
Didst Thou, as man, resume Thy breath 

To plead for us on high ? 



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3 And wilt Thou in Thine image mould 

Those whom Thy blood hath bought ? 
As God, in us the clay behold ; 
In us the change be wrought : — 

4 Till heart in hand ourselves we give, 

No longer deem'd our own ; 
Baptized into Thy death to live, — 
To live to Thee alone. 

5 So when this earthly house we leave, 

For mansions built above. 
Our Spirits to the arms receive 
Of Thine eternal love. 



HYMN CXII. 

Assurance and Encouragement. — Mutt. vii. 7, 8. 

While these commands endure, 

These promises are sure ; 

And 'tis an easy task 

To knock, to seek, to ask : 

Sinner hast thou the willing mind ? 

Saint, art thou thus inclined ? 

Dost thou expect, desire, believe ? 

Then knock and enter, seek and find, 

Ask and receive. 



HYMN CXIII. 

The House of Prayer. — Isaiah W\. 7. 

1 "Mine House shall be an House of Prayer 
For all that live, to worship there : " 



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Thus saith the Lord : — how answer we ? 
" Thine House, our House of Prayer shall 

be/' 
'^ Wherever I my name record, 
There will I meet Thee/' saith the Lord ; 
Thee in Thine House of Prayer we meet ; 
Now bless us from the Mercy-seat. 
Thus spake the Lord — -" My Son, to Thee 
Swear every tongue, bow every knee : " 
Father, by us Thy will be done. 
We bow the knee and '' Kiss the Son." 
His throne and kingdom thus advance, 
The world be His inheritance ; 
Then, for all people every where. 
Thine House shall be an House of Prayer. 



HYMN CXIV. 

Efficacy of imitecl amlfccithful Prayer. 

1 Come to the throne of Grace : — it stands 

At all times, every where ; 
With humbled hearts and holy hands. 
Let us assemble there. 

2 On the whole earth's expanded face, 

' Tis best to tarry there. 
For nearest heaven must be the place, 
Where GrOD meets man in prayer. 

3 In the same moment, at that throne, 

Were all who breathe the air. 
In multitude, or each alone. 

Found offering faithful prayer : — 



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4 JN'o thought, no word, no sigh, in vain, 

Conceived, or utter'd there, 
Could miss the mark ; like genial rain 
Blessings would fall on prayer. 

5 When field and forest, plant and flower 

The dews of morning share, 
Blade, bud, leaf, blossom, in one hour, 
Alike are watered there. 

6 To-day while countless Sabbath bands 

Are gathering every where. 
Let us with them lift hearts and hands, 
And all unite in Prayer. 



HYMN CXV. 

A Day in the Lorcfs Courts. 

To Thy Temple I repair. 
Lord, I love to worship there, 
When within the veil I meet 
Christ before the Mercy-seat. 
Thou through Him art reconciled, 
I through Him become thy child ; 
Abba ! Father ! give me grace, 
In Thy courts to seek Thy face. 
While Thy glorious praise is sung. 
Touch my lips, unloose my tongue, 
That my joyful soul may bless 
Thee, the Lord my Kighteousness. 
While the prayers of saints ascend, 
God of Love, to mine attend ; 
Hear me, for thy Spirit pleads. 
Hear, for Jesus intercedes. 



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5 While I hearken to Thy Law, 
Fill my soul with humble awe, 
Till Thy Gospel bring to me 
Life and immortality. 

6 While Thy ministers proclaim 
Peace and pardon in Thy Name, 
Through their voice, by faith, may I 
Hear Thee speaking from the sky. 

7 From Thine House, when I return. 
May my heart within me bm^n, 
And at evening let me say, 

" I have walked with God to-day." 



HYMN CXVI. 

Waiting on the Lord, 

1 Joyful in Thy House of Prayer, 

Shall Thy chosen people be ; 
God of mercy, meet me there. 
While my spirit waits on Thee. 

2 There, with strength renew'd, the saint 

As on eagle wings shall fly. 
Walk and run, and never faint. 
Fight and conquer, — so would I. 

3 There, with faces Zion-ward, 

When transgressors ask the way 
To the city of the Lord, 

Each shall hear the watchman say : — 



118 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

4 To the Cross direct thine eyes, 

Thither from destruction flee, 
For the gates of paradise 
Open stand on Calvary. 

5 " He who bore a sinner thence, 

As a trophy of his death, 
There wilt pardon thine offence. 
There receive thy latest breath.' 

6 There, where my Kedeemer diedj 

Humbly in the dust I fall ; 
Jesus, and Him crucified. 
Now shall be mine all in all. 



HYMN CXVII. 

Ps. cxxxix. 23, 24. 

All hearts to Thee are open here ; 

All our desires are known ; 
And we are that which we appear 

To Thee, good Lord, alone. 

No eye of man can penetrate. 

Another's secret mind. 
Nor well discern his own estate, 

Naked, and poor, and bUnd. 

The entrance of Thy word gives light 

Let it so shine within. 
That each may tremble at the sight 

Of his unbosom'd sin. 



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4 With godly sorrow make liim grieve, 

Till hope spring out of grief, 
And cry with tears, '' Lord, I believe, 
Help Thon mine mibelief" 

5 Ah ! then reveal Thy pard'ning love, 

To young, to old, to all. 
And raise Thy banish'd ones above 
The misery of their fall. 

6 As sinners to Thy house we came : 

As saints may we depart, 
In humbler, holier, happier frame 
Of soul, and mind, and heart. 



HYMN CXYIII. 

The Day of Grace. 

1 Another day, a day of grace 

Is given us from on high ; 
The sun rejoicing runs his race 
Of glory round the sky. 

2 We love to hail him on the way. 

With healino; in his wine's, 

O CI J 

For every time he brings a day, 
A day of grace he brings ; — 

3 Of grace to weary ones, who sleep 

As homeless Jacob slept ; 
Of grace to penitents, who weep 
As Mien Peter wept ; — 



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4 Grace, such as humble Mary moved 

To choose the better part, 
Saul's slaughter-breathing zeal reproved, 
And open'd Lydia's heart. 

5 Such grace be ours, howe'er the past 

Have well or ill been spent ; 
To-day, — since this may be our last,— 
To-day let us repent. 

6 Now young and old, now great and small 

Seek we our Saviour's face. 
That each henceforth this day may call 
A day indeed of grace. 



HYMN CXIX. 

Inmtation to seek tlie tetter Gountry. 

1 Come, let us go to heaven ; — the way, 
Like darkness, opens into day, 
When from the turning-point of night, 
Breaks the first beam of morning light. 

2 Come let us go to heaven ; — our guide 

Is Christ who lived, is Christ who died, 
And rose again ; His staff and rod. 
Through life and death, will lead to God. 

3 Come, let us go to heaven ; — forsake 
Sin, earth, and hell, and gladly take 
His easy yoke. His pleasant load, 
And brave the dangers of the road. 



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4 Come, let us go to heaven ; — and press 
On through the howhng wilderness ; 
Yet fear not, little flock, though foes 
Without, within, your course oppose. 

5 Come, let us go to heaven, — no power. 
Not Satan rOaring to devour, 

Nor all his hosts, can harm, for ye, 
Through Christ, shall more than conquerors 
be. 

6 Come, let us go to heaven ; — and meet 
Once and for ever, round His feet ; 
Yea, in Christ's kingdom, as His own, 
Sit down with Him upon His throne. 

7 Can these things be ? — they are, are sure 
To all who to the end endure ; 

While unbelief cries, " can they be ? " 
Come, let us go to heaven and see. 



HYMN CXX. 

Eioening Song for the Sabtath-day . 

1 Millions within Thy courts have met, 

Millions this day before Thee bow'*d ; 
Their faces Zion-ward were set, 

Yows with their lips to Thee they vow'd : 

2 But Thou, soul-searching GrOD ! hast known 

The hearts of all that bent the knee. 
And hast accepted those alone, 

In spirit and truth, that worshipp'd Thee. 

6 



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3 People of many a tribe and tongue, 

Men of strange colours, climates, lands, 
Have heard Thy truth, Thy glory sung. 
And offer'd prayer with holy hands. 

4 Still, as the light of morning broke 

O'er islands, continent, or deep. 
Thy far-spread family awoke. 

Sabbath all round the world to keep. 

5 From east to west, the sun surveyed. 

From north to south, adoring throngs ; 

And still, where evening stretch'd her shade, 

The stars came out to hear their songs. 

6 Harmonious as the wind and seas. 

In halcyon hours when storms are flown. 
Arose earth's Babel languages. 
In pure accordance to the throne. 

7 Not angel trumpets sound more clear. 

Nor elders' harps, nor seraphs' lays. 
Yield sweeter music to Thine ear 

Than humble prayer and thankful praise. 

8 And not a prayer, a tear, a sigh, 

Hath fail'd this day some suit to gain ; 
To those in trouble. Thou wert nigh. 
Not one hath sought Thy face in vain. 

9 Thy ]30or were bountifully fed. 

Thy chasten'd sons have kiss'd the rod. 
Thy mourners have been comforted, 
The pure in heart have seen their God. 

10 Yet one prayer more ! — and be it one. 

In which both heaven and earth accord : 



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Fulfil Thyproruise to Thy Son, 

Let all that breathe call Jesu Lo i >. 



HYMN CXXI. 

SeeMng the Lord's Face. — ^Ps. xxvii. 

1 One thing, with all my soul's clesire, 

I sought and will pursue ; 
What Thine own Spirit doth inspire, 
Lord, for Thy servant do. 

2 Grant me within Thy courts a place, 

Among Thy saints a seat. 
For ever to behold Thy face, 
And worship at Thy feet. 

3 In Thy pavilion to abide, 

When storms of trouble blow. 
And in Thy tabernacle hide, 
Secure from every foe. 

4 " Seek ye My face ; '' — without delay. 

When thus I hear Thee speak, 
My heart would leap for joy, and say, 
" Thy face, Lord, will I seek." 

5 Then leave me not, when griefs assail. 

And earthly comforts flee, 
When father, mother, kindred fail. 
My God, remember me. 

6 Oft had I fainted, and resigned 

Of every hope my hold, 
But mine affections brought to mind 
Thy benefits of old. 



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7 Wait on the Lord, with courage wait, 
My soul, disdain to fear : 
The righteous Judge is at the gate, 
And thy redemption near. 



HYMN CXXII. 

The Image of Christ. 

1 To me to Hve, let it he Christ, 

To me to die will then he gain, 
If here into His death baptized, 
His resurrection I attain. 

2 As He was in the world, let me. 

Born from above, my course fulfil ; 
My meat, my drink, my business be 
To do my heavenly Fathei-'s will. 

3 So, when He comes, with glory crown'd, 

To claim His ovm, and seal them His, 
I in his likeness shall be found. 
For I shall see Him as He is. 



HYMN CXXIII. 

Gratitude for Redemption. — Ps. cxvi. 

I LOVE the Lord ; — He lent an ear, 
When I for help implored ; 

He rescued me from all my fear. 
Therefore I love the Lord. 



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Bound hand and foot with chains of sin. 



Death dragged me for his prey ; 
The pit was moved to take me in^ 
All hope was far away. 

3 I cried in agony of mind. 

'' LoRDj I beseech Thee, save : " 
He heard me ; — Death his prey resign'd, 
And Mercy shut the grave. 

4 Keturn, my soul, unto thy rest, 

From God no longer roam : 
His hand hath bountifully blest, 
His goodness call'd thee home. 

5 What shall I render unto Thee, 

M}^ Saviour in distress. 
For all Thy benefits to me ; 
So great and numberless ? 

6 This will I do, for Thy love's sake, 

And thus Thy power proclaim, 
Salvation's sacred cup I'll take. 
And call upon Thy name. 

7 Thou God of covenanted o-race ! 

Hear and record my vow, 
While in Thy courts I seek Thy face. 
And at Thine altar bow. 

8 Henceforth myself to Thee I give, 

With single heart and eye. 
To walk before Thee while I live, 
And bless Thee when I die. 



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HYMN CXXIY. 

The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ. 

1 We know the condescending grace 

Of our Lord Jesus Christ : — we know 
He came to seek and save our race 
From sin, and death, and endless woe. 

2 Kich ere the world began, — on earth 

Irapov'rish'd to retrieve our loss, 
And, from the manger at His birth, 
Exalted only to the cross. 

3 Yet in that humble crib was He 

God in the flesh made manifest : 
And, on that ignominious tree, 
God over all, for ever blest. 

4 Then, at His manger let us meet, 

In spirit our Emmanuel own. 
Or round the cross, beneath His feet, 
Hail Him as on the Father's Throne. 

5 That throne and cross united here 

Time nor eternity can part, 
As one henceforth the twain appear, 
Seen only by the pure in heart : — 

6 The pure in heart, for they alone 

Can on the cross's glory gaze. 
Where the Lamb slain amidst the Throne 
Adoring saints and angels praise. 



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HYMN CXXY. 

" Himself He coiild not save^ — Mark xv. 31. 

" He saved others/' scorners cried, ^ 

Beholding Jesus crucitied ; 

" Is this the Son of God with power ? 

Lo, in His own afflictive hour, 

Himself he cannot save/' 

He tvas the Son of God with power, 
He '^ came nnto that very hour ; " 
111 joy in His reproach and shame, 
^^ He saved others ; '' Til exclaim, 
" Himself He could not save." 

His agony and bloody sweat, 
His cross and passion paid my debt ; 
He saved others when he fell, 
Yet, — who the mystery can tell ? 
Himself He could not save. 

Love, love unthroned the Son of God ; 
Love bruised Him with the Father's rod ; 
Love gave, and love reclaim'd His breath ; 
He saved others by His death ; 
Himself he could not save. 

Were Love and Deity at strife ? 
No, — freely He resign'd His life ; 
God freely sent Him from above ; 
Love is of God, for God is love ; 
Himself He could not save. 



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6 Have I hope beyond the grave ; 
'Tis this, Himself he could not save ; 
Hope full of immortality ; 
He saved others, saved me ; 
Himself He could not save. 



HYMN CXXVI. 

Christ Jesus our Pattern in doing and suffering. 

1 And did the Son of God appear 
A man of toil and suffering liere ? 
Him let us then our pattern make, 
Who toird and suffer'd for our sake. 

2 Though holy, harmless, undefiled, 
He learn'd olDcdience, from a child ; 
Through youth in grace and wisdom grew, 
As man the Tempter's wiles overthrew. 

3 Grlad tidings, when He went to preach, 
How mild and healing was His speech ! 
Though with authority He taught, 
And miracles of mercy wrought. 

4 Rebuke and scorn he meekly bore, 
The more reviled He loved the more ; 
Thus He delighted to fulfil 

Love's law, — His heavenly Father's will. 

5 O'er land and sea, whate'er the cost, 
He came to seek and save the lost ; 
For this he hunger'd, thirsted, sigh'd, 
Watch'd, pray'd and labour'd, lived and died. 



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6 Taught by the Holy Spirit may we 
In all things Kke our pattern he ; 
By His, our words and actions frame, 
And hear His cross, who hear His name. 



HYMN CXXVII. 

The Poicer of Christ's Resurrection. 

1 Come see the place where Jesus lay, 

For He hath left his gloomy bed ; 
What angel rolFd the stone away ? 

What spirit brought Him from the dead ? 

2 By His omnipotence He rose, 

By His own Spirit lived again. 
To crush for ever all His foes. 
To raise for ever ruin'd men. 

3 Those who His image here partake. 

Though worms in dust their flesh consume, 
Shall sleep in Jesus, and awake 
To. life eternal from the tomb. 

4 What shall restore a world from death. 

Where Satan holds his murderous reign ? 
Spirit of Jesus ! with Thy breath 
Shake the dry bones, revive the slain. 

5 Dead while they live are Adam's race, 

By nature, since their Father's fall ; 
But lo ! the messengers of grace 
Proclaim the gospel-hope to all. 



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6 Hear it ye dead, of every clime, 
Before the second death begins ; 
Come forth to this new hfe in time, 
This resmTCCtion from your sins. 



HYMN CXXVIII. 

The Resurrection. 

Morning of the Sabbath day, 
thou sweetest hour of prime ! 

Dart a retrospective ray 

O'er the eastern hills of time ; 

Daybreak let my spirit see 

At the foot of Calvary. 

Joseph's sepulchre is nigh ; 

Here the seal upon the stone, 
There the sentinel, with eye. 

Star-like, fix'd on that alone ; 
All around is calm and clear, 
Life and death keep Sabbath here. 

Bright and brighter, beam on beam, 
Now, like first created light. 

From the rock-cleft, gleam by gleam, 
Shoots athwart the waning night, 

Till the splendour grows intense, 

Overpowering mortal sense. 

Grlory turns with me to gloom, 
Sight, pulsation, thought depart, 

And the stone that closed the tomb, 
Seems to lie upon my heart ; 



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With that shock the vision flies ; 
Christ is risen ; — and I may rise : — 

Rise, Hke Him, as from this trance, 
When the trumjDet calls the just 

To the Saints' inheritance, 

From their dwellings in the dust : 

By thy resurrection's power, 

Jesus, save me in that hour. 

Sahbath morning, hail to thee ; 

thou sweetest hour of prime ! 
From the foot of Calvary, 

Now to Zion's top I climb, 
There my risen Lord to meet, 
In his temple, at his feet. 



HYMN CXXIX. 

" This do in remembrance of Me^ — Luke xxii. 19. 

1 According to thy gracious word. 

In meek humility, 
This will I do, my dying Lord ! 
I IV ill remember Thee. 

2 Thy body, broken for my sake. 

My bread from heaven shall be ; 
Thy testamental cup I take. 
And thus remember Thee ? 

3 Gethsemane can I forget ? 

Or there Thy conflict see, 

Thine agony and bloody sweat, 

And not remember Thee ? 



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4 When to the cross I turn mine eyes 

And rest on Calvary, 
Lamb of God, my sacrifice ! 
I must remember Thee : — 

5 Remember Thee, and all Thy pains, 

And all Thy love to me ; 
Yea, while a breath, a pulse remains. 
Will I remember Thee. 

6 And when these failing lips grow dumb, , 

And mind and memory flee, 
When Thou shalt in Thy Kingdom come, 
Jesus, remember me. 



HYMN CXXX. 

The Lord's Supper. 

1 Communion of my Saviour's blood, 

In Him to have my lot and part, 
To prove the virtue of that flood 

Which burst on Calvary from his heart ; 

2 To feed by faith on Christ, my bread. 

His body broken on the tree, 
To hve in Him, my living Head, 
Who died, and rose again for me ; 

3 This be my joy and comfort here. 

This pledge of future glory mine : 
Jesus, in spirit now appear, 

And break the bread, and pour the wine. 



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4 From Thy dear hand, may I receive 

The tokens of Thy dying love, 
And, while I feast on earth, believe 
That I shall feast with thee above. 

5 Ah ! there, though in the lowest place, 

Thee at Thy table could I meet, 
And see Thee, know Thee, face to face, 
For such a moment death were sweet. 

6 What then will their fruition be, 

Who meet in heaven with blest accord ? 
A moment ? — No, eternity ! 

They are for ever with the Lord. 



HYMN CXXXI. 

Christ in the Midst of His People. 

1 On the first Christian Sabbath eve, 

When His disciples met. 
O'er His lost fellowship to grieve. 
Nor knew the Scriptures yet. 

2 Lo, in their midst His form was seen, 

The form in which He died, — 
Their Master's marr'd and wounded mien, 
His hands, his feet, his side. 

3 Then were they glad their Lord to know, 

And worshipp'd, yet with fear ; 
Jesus, again Thy presence show ; 
Meet Thy disciples here. 



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4 Be in our midst ; — let faith rejoice 

Our risen Lord to view, 
And make our spirits hear Thy voice, 
Say, " Peace be unto you." 

5 Then, while we hearken, unfold 

The Scriptures to our mind : 
Their mysteries let us now behold ; 
Their hidden treasures find. 

6 Thee it behoved to suffer thus, 

And to Thy glory rise ; 
Instruct, confirm, and strengthen us, 
And make Thy servants wise ; — 

7 Wise to win souls, may we reveal 

Thy love to all around. 
And in ourselves its influence feel 
Yet more and more abound. 

8 And while with thee, in social hours, 

We commune through Thy word, 
May our hearts burn, and all our powers 
Confess, " It is the Lord." 



HYMN CXXXII. 

" And he said, Let me go, for the day Ireaketh.'' 
Genesis xxxii. 26. 

1 Let me go, the day is breaking. 
Dear companions, let me go ; 
We have spent a night of waking 
In the wilderness below ; 



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Upward now I bend my way, 
Part we here at break of day. 

2 Let me go, I may not tarry, 

Wrestling thus with doubts and fears. 
Angels wait my soul to carry, 

Where my risen Lord appears ; 
Friends and kindred, weep not so, 
If you love me let me go. 

3 We have travelled long together, 

Hand in hand, and heart in heart, 
Both through calm and stormy weather. 

And 'tis hard, 'tis hard to part. 
Yet we must ; — " Farewell ! '' to you ; 
Answer, one and all, " Adieu ! " 

4 'Tis not darkness gathering round me. 

Which withdraws me from your sight ; 
Walls of flesh no more can bound me, 

But, translated into light. 
Like the lark on mounting wing. 
Though unseen you hear me sing. 

5 Heaven's broad day hath o'er me broken, 

Far beyond earth's span of sky ; 
I am dead ; — nay, by this token. 

Know that I have ceased to die ; 
Would you solve the mystery ? 
Come up hither, — come and see ! 



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HYMN CXXXIII. 

For Ascension Bay. — Ps. xxiv. 

1 Lift up your heads, ye gates ! and wide 

Your everlasting doors display ; 
Ye angel-guards, like flames divide 
And give the King of Glory way. 

2 Who is the King of Glory .?— He, 

The Lord, omnipotent to save ; 
Whose own right arm, in victory 

Led captive death, and spoird the grave. 

3 Lift up your heads, ye gates ! and high 

Your everlasting portals heave ; 
Welcome the King of Glory nigh ; 

Him must the heaven of heavens receive. 

4 Who is the King of Glory ? — who ? 

The Lord of Hosts ; — behold His name ; 
The kingdom, power, and honour due, 
Yield Him, ye saints ! with glad acclaim. 



HYMN CXXXIY. 

For Ascension Day. 
(Paraphrased, in the original metre, from a Dutch Hymn.) 

1 Praise the Lord through every nation ; 

His holy arm hath wrought salvation ; 

Exalt Him on His Father's throne : 

Praise your King, ye Christian legions, 

Who now prepares, in heavenly regions. 

Unfailing mansions for His own : 



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With voice and minstrelsy. 

Extol His majesty ; 
Hallelujah ! 
His praise shall sound — all nature round, 
Where/er the race of man is found. 

2 God with God, dominion sharing, 
And man with man, our image bearing, 

Gentiles and Jews to Him are given ; 
Praise your Saviour, ransom'd sinners. 
Of life, through Him, immortal winners ; 
Nor longer heirs of earth but heaven : 
Oh ! beatific sight, 
To view His fixce in light ! 
Hallelujah ! 
And while we see — transform'd to be, 
From bliss to bliss eternally. 

3 Jesus, Lord, our Captain glorious ! 
.O'er sin, and death, and hell victorious ; 

Wisdom and might to Thee belong ; 
We confess, proclaim, adore Thee, 
We bow the knee, we fall before Thee, 
Thy love henceforth shall be our song ; 
The cross meanwhile we bear. 
The crown ere long to wear ; 
Hallelujah ! 
Thy reign extend — world without end, 
Let praise from all to Thee ascend. 



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HYMN CXXXV. 

The parting of Christian Friends. 

1 Once more to Bethany, — once more 

His little flock the Saviour led ; 
And while their hearts and eyes ran o'er, 
These were the gracious words He said : — 

2 ''Go into all the world ; — proclaim 

Pardon throughout the rebel-host ; 
Baptize believers in the name 
Of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 

3 " Power shall be given you from on high ; 

The Father's promise I will send ; 
But tarry, for the hour is nigh ; 
Lo ! I am wdth you to the end." 

4 Thus while He blessed them, they. saw 

A cloud that caught Him from their view; 

The heavens received Him; — dumb with awe, 

They gaz'd, they worshipped, and withdrew. 

5 Such was tJiat parting ; — here we meet 

In fellowship of Christian love, 
And sit as at our Master's feet, 

And hear Him speaking from above. 

6 Lord Jesus ! so Thy servants teach. 

That when we from each other part. 
Our lips and lives to all may preach ' 
The gospel graven on our heart. 



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HYMN CXXXVI. 

Tlie Descent of the Sjnrit. — Acts, ii. 1-4. 

LoKD God, the Holy Ghost, 

In this accepted hour, 
As on the day of Pentecost, 

Descend in all Thy power ; 
We meet with one accord 

In our appointed place, 
And wait the promise of our Lord, 

The Spirit of all grace. 

Like mighty rushing wind 

Upon the waves beneath, 
Move with one impulse every mind. 

One soul, one feeling breathe : 
The young, the old inspire 

With wisdom from above ; 
And give us hearts and tongues of fire 

To pray, and praise, and love. 

Spirit of light, explore. 

And chase our gloom away. 
With lustre shining more and more 

Unto the perfect day : 
Spirit of truth, be Thou 

In life and death our guide ; 
Spirit of adoption, noiv 

May we be sanctified. 



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HYMN CXXXVII. 

Gifts. — 1 Cor. xiii. 

1 Could I command with voice or pen 
The tongues of Angels and of men, 
A tinkUng cymbal, sounding brass 

My speech and preaching would surpass ; 
Vain were such eloquence to me 
Without the grace of Charity. 

2 Could I the martyr's flame endure, 
Give all my goods to feed the poor ; 
Had I the faith from Alpine steep 
To hurl the mountain to the deep, 
What were such zeal, such power to me 
Without the grace of Charity ? 

3 Could I behold with prescient eye 
Things future as the things gone by ; 
Could I all earthly knowledge scan. 
And mete out heaven with a span. 
Poor were the chief of gifts to me 
Without the chiefest — Charity. 

4 Charity suffers long, is kind. 
Charity bears a humble mind, 
Rejoices not when dls befall. 
But glories in the weal of all ; 
She hopes, believes, and envies not. 
Nor vaunts, nor murmurs o'er her lot. 

5 The tongues of teachers shall be dumb, 
Prophets discern not things to come, 



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Knowledge shall vanish out of thought, 
And miracles no more he wrought. 
But Charity shall never fail, 
Her anchor is within the veil. 



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HYMN CXXXYIII. 

Barnabas. — Acts, xi. 22-26. 

1 Of him the sacred record saith, 
He was a good man, full of faith. 
Who hj the Holy Spirit led, 
Kejoiced to see the Gospel spread : — 

2 Spread hy the Saints where'er they went 
From martyrdom to banishment ; 

The cross through every region bore, 
And more oppressed, prevailed the more. 

3 From doomed Jerusalem cast forth, 
Eastward and westward, south and north. 
On fertile field, and barren clod. 

They sow'd the seed, the Word of GrOD. 

4 To heathen Antioch, when they came. 
And first received their Master's name. 
They gloried in it, and bequeathed 
The inheritance to all that breathed : — 

5 To all that breathed by second birth. 
Children of God, though sons of earth, 
For " Christians," Christians such shall be 
Till time becomes eternity. 



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6 Well then might Barnabas rejoice, 
And aid the work with heart and voice, 
For though by earth and hell assail'd, 
The truth grew rnighty and prevailed. 

7 Ye faithful souls, from age to age. 
Transmit your heavenly heritage, 
Christ's easy yoke with meekness wear, 
An(f bear His cross whose name ye bear : — 

8 That all the living, in that day. 

When Heaven and Earth must pass away, 
Redeemed from sin, through grace restored. 
May be caught up to meet the Lord. 



HYMN CXXXIX. 

The universal Church. — Isa. Ixvi. 12, 23. 

1 Thus saith the Lord, — "My Church, to 

thee 
Peace, like a river, I Avill send ; 
The Gentiles, in a stream, shall see 
My mercy flowing without end. 

2 The isles, that never heard my fame. 

Nor knew the glory of my might. 

They shall be taught to fear my name, 

CalFd out of darkness into light. 

3 And it shall come to pass, that vows 

From sabbath unto sabbath-day, 
From moon to moon, in mine own house. 
All nations, tribes, and tongues shall pay." 



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HYMN CXL. 

The LorcVs Prayer. — II. 

Our Heavenly Father ! hear 

The prayer we offer now ; 
Thy name be hallo w'd far and near, 

To Thee all nations bow : 
Th}^ kingdom come ; Thy will 

On earth be done in love. 
As saints and serapliim fulfil 

Thy perfect law above. 

Our daily bread supply, 

While by Thy word we live ; 
The guilt of our iniquity, 

Forgive as we forgive ; 
From dark temptation's power. 

From Satan's wiles defend. 
Deliver in the evil hour, 

And guide us to the end. 

Thine then for ever be 

Glory and power divine ; 
The sceptre, throne, and majest} 

Of heaven and earth are thine : 
Thus humbly taught to pray 

By thy beloved Son, 
Through Him we come to Thee, and aa) 

All for His sake be done ! 



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HYMN CXLI. 

The good Providence of the Lord.— Vs. cxlvi. 

1 Praise ye the Lord, from pole to pole ! 
Praise thou the Lord, my soul, my soul ! 
Long as I live, my voice shall raise. 

My pulse repeat, the song of praise. 

2 In men, in princes, put no trust : 

Their breath goes forth, they turn to dust ; 
Then, fleeting as the flower of grass. 
Perish their thoughts, their glories pass. 

3 Thrice happy he whose heart can say, 
" The God of Jacob is my stay : 
The Lord of hosts my help shall be, 
Who made the heaven, the earth, the sea/' 

4 The Lord avenges the opprest, 

He sends the ^vandering stranger rest ; 
The Lord unbinds the prisoner's chain, 
He sets the fallen up again. 

5 The Lord restores the blind to sight, 
Gives strength to them that have no might ; 
The Lord relieves in their distress 

The widow and the fatherless. 

6 The Lord supplies the poor with food, 
He loves to do the righteous good ; 
But for the wdcked, in his wrath, 

He turns destruction on their path. 

7 The Lord shall reign for evermore. 
Thy King, Zion ! — Him adore ; 
Let unborn generations raise 

To God, thy God, the song of praise. 



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HYMN CXLII. 

Providence and Grace. 

1 Lord of all power and might ! 

All want and weakness we, 
For food and raiment, life and liglit^ 
Daily look up to Thee. 

2 Thy providence commands 

The blessing from above 
Upon the labours of our hands, 
And offices of love. 

3 When low by sickness brought, 

Through frailty of the flesh. 
Amidst the travail of our thought, 
Thy comforts us refresh. 

4 In darkness though we stray, 

Where tempted saints have trod, 
'Tis good for us, like them to stay 
Our souls upon our God. 

5 In Thee we live and move, 

And have our being still ; 
So teach Thou us to know and prove, 
To choose and do Thy will. 

6 Thy word, which cannot fail. 

Thy strength, in weakness shown. 
Thy grace, which ever must prevail, 
Shall make Thy glory known. 

7 



146 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

7 That glory be our aim, 

Our hope and crown of joy ; 
And to extol Thy holy name, 
Our first, last, sole employ. 



HYMN CXLIII. 

The Liglitliouse. 

1 The lighthouse founded on a rock, 

Casts o'er the flood its radiant eye, 
Firm amidst ocean's heaviest shock, 
Serene beneath the stormiest sky. 

2 Though winds and waters rage and foam, 

Though darkness lowers like Eg)^t's night, 
Here peace and safety find a home ; 
In this small Goshen there is light. 

3 Nor for itself it stands alone, 

The seaman's friend, it shines from far, 
As though an angel from the throne 
Came down to be his leading star. 

4 It warns to shun the breakers near. 

Smooth into port the vessel guides, 
Points where a wider course to steer, 
Shows how to 'scape conflicting tides. 

5 Thus built upon eternal truth. 

High in mid-heaven, o'er land and sea, 
Christ's Church holds forth to age and 
youth 
A beacon and a sanctuarv. 



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Light, peace, and safety dwell within, 
Abroad its sunbright beams display, 

Clear from the rocks and shoals of sin, 
Through life and death, the one good way. 



HYMN OXLIY. 

Choosing the Better Fart. 

1 The one thing needful be our choice. 

To sit at our Kedeemer's feet ; 
And meekly hearken to His voice. 
That still small voice divinely sweet. 

2 Divinely sweet, and yet of power 

To quell the tempest, calm the waves. 
And even in His expiring hour 

To rend the rocks, unclose the graves. 

3 '^ Come unto me, all ye that mourn, 

Weary, hard laden, sore opprest ; 
Your griefs and sorrows I have borne, 
come, and I will give you rest !" 

4 For us heaven's glory He forsook ; 

To seek and save the lost he came ; 
Himself our feeble nature took. 

Endured the cross, despised the shame, 

5 And shall we not for Him forsake 

Earth's toys, sin's bondage, Satan's snare, 
His cross, an easy yoke, to take. 

His shame, a burthen light, to bear .^ 



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6 All ! then be ours that better part, 

Which Mary chose^ His words to hear, 
And hide as treasures in our heart, 
Dearer than life itself is dear. 



HYMN CXLY. 

Gocfs merciful Guardianship of Ms Feople. — Ps. xci. 

1 Call Jehovah thy salvation, 

Rest beneath the Almighty's shade. 
In his secret habitation 

Dwell, and never be dismay'd : 
There no tumult shall alarm thee. 

Thou shalt dread no hidden snare ; 
Guile nor violence can harm thee ; 

In eternal safeguard there. 

2 From the sword at noon-day wasting. 

From the noisome pestilence, 
In the depth of midnight blasting, 

God shall be thy sure defence : 
Fear not thou the deadly quiver. 

When a thousand feel the blow, 
Mercy shall thy soul deliver, 

Though ten thousand be laid low. 

3 Only with thine eyes the anguish 

Of the wicked thou shalt see. 
When by slow disease they languish, 
WTien they perish suddenly : 



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Thee, tlioiigh winds and waves be swelling, 
God, thine hope, shall bear through all ; 

Plague shall not come nigh thy dwelling, 
Thee no evil shall befall. 

He shall charge his angel legions, 

Watch and ward o'er thee to keep ; 
Though thou walk through hostile regions, 

Though in desert wilds thou sleep : 
On the lion vainly roaring, 

On his young, thy foot shall tread. 
And, the dragon's den exploring, 

Thou shalt bruise the Serpent's head. 

Since, with pure and firm affection, 

Thou on God hast set thy love. 
With the wings of His protection 

He will shield thee from above : 
Thou shalt call on Him in trouble, " 

He will hearken. He will save, 
Here for grief reward thee double. 

Crown with life beyond the grave. 



HYMN CXLVI. 

Acknowledgment that Diviiie Providence chooses our Lot. 

1 Father of lights ! from, whom alone, 
All good and perfect gifts descend ; 
To Thee our utmost wants are known, 
To us Thy benefits extend. 



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2 Thy power, thy wisdom, and thy grace 

Bestow'd our being, life, and breath, 
Fix'd our condition, time and place, 
The moment of our birth — our death. 

3 Though poor our lot, Thou didst not leave 

Thy children in their low estate, 
In helpless misery to grieve, 
Or frolic on the brink of fate. 

4 Thy servants took us by the hand. 

Led to the school, the church, and Thee ; 
Surely in Britain's chosen land, 
A goodly heritage have we. 

5 O may we know in this our day. 

The things of our eternal peace ! 
From strength to strength pursue our way ; 
In faith and holiness increase. 

6 Still with long suffering, goodness, truth, 

Conduct us through this vale of tears ; 
With loving-kindness guard our youth. 
With tender mercies crown our years. 



HYMN CXLVII. 

Change and JProgress in Nature and Grace. 

A RACE on earth, a race we run. 

And hold a prize in view, 
More bright than if we chased the sun 

Through heaven's eternal blue. 



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2 Changes we prove, and vanish soon, — 

Changes from youth to age, — 
Transient as those that shape the moon 
On her brief pilgrimage. 

3 Like constellations on their way, ^ 

That meet the morning light, 
We travel up to higher day. 
We pass through deeper night. 

4 Their tasks the heavenly hosts fulfil. 

Ere long to shine their last ; 
We, if we do our Father's will. 
Shall shine when they are past. 

5 Knit like the social stars in love. 

Fair as the moon, and clear 
As yonder sun, enthroned above, 
Christians through life appear. 



HYMN CXLYIII. 

Prayer for Poioer to give our Hearts to Ood. 

"My Son, give me thine heart, and let 
Thine eyes observe my ways ! " 

Our hearts are Thine, we own the debt — 
Happy the child that pays ! 

But Lord ! we cannot give, unless 
Thou take what is Thine own ; 

Come, then, our conquered hearts possess, 
In each erect Thy throne. 



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3 There wield Thy sceptre, Prince of Peace, 

With kind and gentle sway, 
And may Thy kingdom still increase, 
While Satan's falls away. 

4 Where sin abounded, there let grace 

Aboimd yet more and more, 
Till life and freedom take the place 
Of bonds and death before. 

5 Thy word our law. Thy will our choice. 

Thy fear all fear expel ; 
Thy joy our strength, let us rejoice 
With joy unspeakable. 

6 And ! to make us wholly thine. 

Thy perfect love impart ; 
Thus warm, illumine, raise, refine. 
And hallow every heart. 



HYMN CXLIX. 

The fellowsliip of those who fear the Lord. — MalacH ill. 
16-18 ; iv. 1. 

1 When those who fear'd the Lord of old 

Met oft, and spoke with one accord, 
A book was written, and enroll'd 

Their faithful names before the Lord. 

2 They shall be mine, Jehovah said. 

And as a signet on my hand, 
A crown of glory for my head. 
Among my chosen jewels stand. 



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And I will spare them in that day, 

Even as a father spares his son, 
When all the proud are swept away, 

The wicked, root and branch, undone. 
Then shall my righteousness be shown ; 

Then, by their good or evil lot. 
The sinner and the saint be known. 

Who served the Lord, luJio served Him 
not. 
Lord, we are taught Thy name to fear, 

may we tremble to offend ; 
Lord, we are taught to serve Thee here, 

May we be faithful to the end. 
Our names are on Thy Church's rolls, 

But in Thy book our pardon write : 
Kich was the ransom of our souls, 

May they be precious in Thy sight. 



HYMN CL. 

Reception into ChurcJi Felloicship. — I. 

Come in, thou blessed of the Lord, 

Stranger nor foe art thou ; 
We w^elcome thee with warm accord. 

Our Friend, our Brother now. 
The hand of fellowship, the heart 

Of love, we offer thee ; 
Leaving the world, thou dost but part 

From lies and vanity. 
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3 The cup of blessing which we bless, 

The heavenly bread we break, 
(Our Saviour's blood and righteousness,) 
Freely with us partake. 

4 In weal or woe, in joy or care, 

Thy portion shall be ours ; 
Cliristians their mutual burthen share. 
They lend their mutual powers. 

5 Come with us, we will do thee good. 

As God to us hath done. 
Stand but in Him, as those have stood, 
Whose faith the victory won. 

6 And when by turns we pass away, 

As star by star grows dim. 

May each, translated into day, 

Be lost and found in Him. 



HYMN CLI. 

ReceiJiion into Ghurcli FellowsMp. — II. 

Head of Thy Church, her glorious Head 
Bought with Thy blood upon the tree. 

The fulness of Thy blessing shed 
On Thine assembled family. 

For Thee, accounting all things loss, 
This evil world we would forsake, 

And glorying only in Thy cross, 

Thy joy and sufferings both partake. 



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3 Oil ! gather in, from east to west, 

From north to south, oh ! gather in 
Thine own elect, and give them rest, 
Within Thy sanctuary, from sin. 

4 Him whom we now as Thine receive. 

Thyself confess before the throne ; 
So may he with the heart believe. 
And live and die to Thee alone. 

5 On him in loving-kindness look, 

And while his name we here record. 
Inscribe it in Thine own blest Book 
Among the ransom'd of the Lord. 



HYMN CLII 

Symbols of Christian 



1 Union of faith, and hope, and love. 

Union of heart, and soul, and mind, 
Affections fix'd on things above, 

As one on earth, God's children bind. 

2 Stones, built on Christ, the corner stone, 

A spiritual temple, lo ! they rise. 
While sweet ascends, before the throne, 
Praise in perpetual sacrifice. 

3 Branches in Christ, the one true Vine, 

Nourished by Him alone they thrive ; 
From Him the leaf, the fruit, the wine, 
Each in its season, all derive. 



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4 Members of Christ, the Church's head, 

Who lives Himself through every limb, 
To sin, the world, and Satan dead, 
Their life in God is hid with Him. 

5 Thus young and old, thus great and small, 

might their multitude increase ! — 
Who Christ their Lord and Master call, 
Whatever their lot — in Him have peace. 



HYMN CLIII. 

FelloiD Tradellers on Heaveii's Highioay. 

1 Come on, companions of our way. 
Who travel to eternal day 

Through this poor world of night ; 
Give to the Lord, in noble songs. 
The praise that to His name belongs. 

As children of the light. 

2 Caird out of darkness, by His voice. 
Be that clear shining path our choice. 

Which Christ our captain trod ! 
Whether with flowers and fragrance crown'd, 
Or thorns and thistle interwound, 

It leads the soul to God. 

3 Though pilgrims in a vale of woes, 
Thick-strown with snares, and thronged with 

foes ; 
Since Jesus journey'd through, 



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Plant but your steps where his have prest 
The ground once curst, — that ground now 
blest 
Is heaven's highway for you. 

To heaven, to heaven then march we on, 
Go where our conquering Lord hath gone ! 

Thus where He is^ shall we 
In joy behold Him face to face. 
And, changed by glorifying grace, 
Kesemble Him we see. 



HYMN CLIV. 

Christian Union symholized Inj Natural Objects. 

1 Free, though in chains, the mountains stand, 
The valleys linked run through the land ; 
In fellowship the forests thrive, 

And streams from streams their strength 
derive. 

2 The cattle graze in flocks and herds, 
In choirs and concerts sing the birds ; 
Insects by milhons ply the wing. 
And flowers in peaceful armies spring. 

3 All nature is society. 

All nature's voices harmony. 

All colours blend to form pure light, — 

Why then should Christians not unite ? 

4 Thus to the Father pray'd the Son, 
" One may they be as We are one. 



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That I in them, and Thou in rae, 
They one with Us may ever be." 

5 Children of Grod ! combine your bands ; 
Brethren in Christ ! join hearts and hands, 
And pray, — for so the Father will'd. 

That the Son's prayer may be fulfiird : — 

6 Fulfiird in you, fulfill'd in all. 
That on the name of Jesus call. 
And every covenant of love 

They bind on earth be bound above. 



HYMN CLV. 

The Bond of the Communion of Saints. 

1 The grace of Jesus Christ our Lord, 
The JFather's love, with sweet accord, 
The Holy Grhost's communion be 
Our bond of peace and amity. 

2 Our fellowship on earth begun. 
Be with the Father and the Son ; 
And may the Holy Spirit's might. 
Our souls as one man's soul, unite. 

3 Then to the church, the Saviour's pride, 
Our hearts' affections be allied ; 

And these, hke His, the sinner's friend, 
To all for whom He died, extend. 

4 So may we, like the Saints above. 
Live in an element of love. 



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And every fruit in season show, 
Of Faith, Hope, Charity below. 

Till, as these frames return to dust. 
Our reasoning souls among the just. 
Shall with the Lord our God be found. 
In life's eternal bundle bound. 



HYMN CLVI. 

Worlcing the WovTcs of Ood, 

1 Work while it is to-day ! 

This was our Saviour's rule ; 
With docile minds let us obey, 
As learners in His school. 

2 We, as He did, should do. 

Who practised what he taught ; 
By precept and example too 
Our master spake and wrought. 

3 To work the works of God, 

Was His divine employ. 
And we must tread the path He trod. 
Or enter not His joy. 

4 The night will come full soon. 

Life's day with morn may end ; 
While many a sun goes down ere noon 
Few to their west descend. 

5 Lord, Christ, we humbly ask 

Of Thee the power ^nd will, 



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With fear and meekness, every task 
Of duty to fulfil. 

6 Our own salvation be 

Our first and constant aim, 
Then far and wide, o'er land and sea, 
Glad tidings to proclaim. 

7 At home by word and deed, 

Adorn redeeming grace, 
And sow abroad the precious, seed 
Of truth in every place. 

8 That thus the wilderness 

May blossom like the rose. 
And trees spring up of righteousness, 
Where'er life's river flows. 

9 For Thee our all to spend, 

Still may we watch and pray, 
And persevering to the end, 
Work while it is to-day. 



HYMN CLVII. 

Heaven in Pn 



1 Palms of glory, raiment bright. 

Crowns that never fade aw^ay. 
Gird and deck the saints in light. 

Priests, and kings, and conquerors they. 

2 Yet the conquerors bring their palms 

To the Lamb amidst the throne, 



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And proclaim in joyful psalms, 
Victory through His cross alone. 

Kings for harps their crowns resign, 
Crying, as they strike the chords, 

" Take the kingdom, it is Thine, 

King of kings, and Lord of Lords ! " 

Round the altar priests confess, 

If their robes are white as snow, 
'Twas the Saviour's righteousness, 
-And His blood that made them so. 

Who were these ? — On earth they dwelt ; 

Sinners once of Adam's race, 
Guilt, and fear, and suffering felt, 

But were saved by sovereign grace. 

They were mortal, too, like us ; 

Ah ! when we like them must die, 
May our souls, translated thus. 

Triumph, reign, and shine on high. 



HYMN CLVIII. 

" Valiant for the Truths 

1 Fight the good fight ; lay hold 

Upon eternal life ; 
Keep but thy shield, be bold, 

Stand through the hottest strife ; 
Invincible while in the field, 
Thou canst not fail, unless thou yield. 

2 No force of earth or hell, 

Though fiends with men unite. 



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Truth's champion can compel, 
However pressed, to flight ; 
Invincible upon the field, 
He cannot fall, miless he yield. 

3 Apollyon's arm may shower 

Darts thick as hail, and hide 
Heaven's face, as in the hour. 

When Christ on Calvary died ; 
No powers of darkness in the field 
Can tread thee down, unless thou yield. 

4 Trust in thy Saviour's might ; 

Yea, till thy latest breath. 
Fight, and like Him in fight. 

By dying conquer death ; 
And all- victorious in the field, 
Then with thy sword, thy spirit yield. 

5 Great words are these, and strong 

Yet Lord, I look to Thee, 
To whom alone belong 

Valour and victory ; 
With Thee, my Captain in the field, 
I must prevail, I cannot yield. 



HYMN CLIX. 

For Spiritual Help and Health. 

Lord ! give us ears to hear 
What Thy good Spirit saith. 

With reverence and with godly fear, 
With meekness and with faith ; 



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That so, the joyful sound, 
Our willing minds may learn, 
. And, where iniquities abound. 
Things excellent discern. 

2 Lord, give us eyes to see 

The wonders of Thy Law, 
Its justice, truth, and purity ; 

That touched with holy twe. 
Conscience no longer dumb, 

Sin's guilt and curse may own ; 
Then from the storm of wrath to come. 

Cling to the Cross alone. 

3 Lord, give us hearts to feel 

The bliss of pardoning love, 
The Spirit's witness^ and the seal 

Of son ship from above ; 
So shall our lips express. 

So in our actions shine, 
The beauty of true holiness. 

The 23roof that we are Thine. 



HYMN CLX. 

TJie Change of Heart. 

1 What is our life ? — a breath, a span, 

A spark struck out, then lost in night ; 
Amidst Thy works. Lord, what is man. 
That Thou in him shouldst take delight ? 

2 Thou self-existent, Thou alone. 

Father of endless ages art ! 



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Earth is Thy footstool, heaven Thy throne, 
Yet scorn'st Thou not a broken heart. 

3 That drear and desolate domain, 

By evil spirits long possest, 
Will bloom like Eden in Thy reign 
Of love and joy, of peace and rest. 

4 Oh ! wouldst Thou deign to visit mine, 

With Thy sweet presence fill the place, 
How would that new creation shine 
With all the glory of Thy grace ! 

5 Then life no moi-e a breath would be, 

A span, a spark, absorb'd in night, 
Life would be immortality. 

And darkness everlasting hght. 



HYMN CLXI. 

The Good Sheplierd and His Flock. 

1 To-DAT the Lord our Shepherd leads 

To living streams His little flock, 
In green and flowery pastures feeds, 
And shades at noon beneath the rock. 

2 To-day we hear our Shepherd's voice. 

And gladly answer to His call ; 
For Him, unseen, our hearts rejoice. 

Who knows, and names, and loves us all 

3 Far from His fold we went astray ; 

The howling wilderness He crossed, 



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From Satan pluck'd lis as a prey, 
Nor spared Himself to save the lost. 

4 Beneath His eye no vain alarms, 

No ravening wolves our walks infest ; 
The lambs He gathers in His arms, 
And bears the feeble on His breast. 

5 By Him conducted, though we tread 

Death's valley, darkening on the view. 
No evil there our spirits dread. 

His rod and staff will guard us through. 

6 When the Chief Shepherd shall aj)pear, 

And small and great before Him stand. 
Oh ! be the flock, assembling here, 

Found with the sheep on His right hand. 



HYMN CLXII. 

Watch and Pray. — Mark. xiv. 38. 

Our Saviour's words are " Watch and Pray : " 

Lord, make us willing to obey ; 

Lord, make us able to fulfil 

Thy counsel — give both power and will. 

The wisdom from above impart, 
To keep our hand, and tongue, and heart. 
In thought, word, deed, — that so we may 
Pray whilst we watch, watch while we pra^ 

Lest while we watch, and fear no snare, 
We fall into neglect of prayer ; 



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Or, while we pray, and watch not, sin 
Creej) like a subtil serpent in. 

4 When by an evil world beset. 
Allurements smile, or terrors threat, 
Well may we watch our Master's eye^ 
And pray for faith to fight or fly. 

5 Our strength be His Omnipotence, 
His truth our sole and sure defence. 
His grace will aid the feeble saint 
To watch and pray, and never faint. 

6 For He who hath commanded thus, 
Oft watch'd and pray'd on earth for us ; 
And still with interceding love. 
Watches and prays for us above. 



HYMN CLXIIL 

Grace and Glory. 

The Lord will grace and glory give 
To those who humbly seek His face ; 

We live for glory while we live, 
And seek it in the paths of grace, 

For grace is glory here begun, 
And till the heavenly prize is won, 
The Christian finds, through all his race, 
That grace is glory, glory grace. 



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HYMN CLXIV. 

The Christian Graces. — 1 Cor. xiii. 13. 

1 Faith, Hope, and Charity, — these three, 
Yet is the greatest Charity ! 

Father of hghts, these gifts impart 
To mine and every human heart : — 

2 Faith, that in prayer can never fail, 
Hope, that o'er doubting must prevail, 
And Charity, whose name above 

Is God's own name, for '' God is love." 

3 The morning star is lost in light. 
Faith vanishes at perfect sight ; 
The rainbow passes with the storm. 
And Hope with sorrow's fading form : — 

4 But Charity, serene, sublime, 
Beyond the range of death and time, 
Like the blue sky's all-bounding space, 
Holds heaven and earth in its embrace. 



HYMN CLXV. 

Christ in various Characters. 

Father ! reveal Thy Son in me. 
To my soul's eye, unclouded ; 

The fulness of the Deity, 

In mortal semblance shrouded, 

When, for a Name o'er every Name, 

He bore the Cross, despised the shame, 
And rose — the World's Redeemer. 



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2 Him then as mine, may I confess, 

With all my powers adore Him, 
And, as the Lord my Righteousness, 

Most humbly walk before Him, 
Hail Him, mine Advocate, on high 
Extol His Priesthood, and rely 

Upon His sole atonement. 

3 All things for Him, may I forsake ; 

In poverty and weakness, 
His gentle burthen on me take. 
And wear His yoke with meekness ; 
So shall I find in labour rest. 
In suffering, peace, — of Christ possessed 
In me the hope of glory. 



HYMN CLXVL 

Renewal in the Image of Christ. 

Dust and ashes, sin and guilt, — 
Christ, for me Thy blood was spilt ; 
Cleanse Thou me from guilt and sin, 
Make me pure without, within ; 
Soul and body, at Thy word, 
Be to saving health restored. 

Flesh and blood, this mortal frame ; 
Thou wert pleased to w^ear the same ; 
Though Thy nature was divine, 
Thou didst condescend to mine ; 
Let me, for Thy mercy's sake. 
Thy divinity partake. 



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From the ruins of the fall, 
Me to grace and glory call : 
Me, Lord my Eighteonsness ! 
With Thine image re-impress ; 
Thou didst stoop to earth for me ; 
Raise me up to heaven with Thee. 



HYMN CLXYII. 

Tlie Walk of Faith, 

1 Humbly, my God, with Thee I walk, 

And sweet communion hold ; 
With Thee in my soul's silence talk, 
And all my heart unfold. 

2 But what a heart for Thee to look 

Into its depths, and read. 
As in the volume of a book. 

The thoughts which thence proceed ! 

3 Its vain imaginations, vain 

Affections and desires. 
Its tliirst for glory, grandeur, gain, 
False hopes, false fears, false fires : — 

4 These would I not from Thee conceal, 

Nor thus myself deceive ; 
No, grant me. Lord, my sins to feel. 
To feel them and to grieve : — 

5 Grieve, and with penitence confess, 

Till Thou art pleased to show 
Mercy on my unrighteousness, 
And give me joy for woe. 
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6 How blest my lot no tongue can tell, 
If such my walk might be, 
As seeing Thee, invisilale. 
For ever seeing me. 



HYMN CLXVIII. 

The Surrender of the Heart. 

1 Upon Thine altar, Lord, I lay 

My poor, my only sacrifice ; 
Thou wilt not turn Thy face away, 
Wilt not a broken heart despise. 

2 Though hard as stone, cold as the clod, 

Mine, — for Thy tender mercies sake, 
Not with the vengeance of Thy rod. 
But by thy loving-kindness break, 

3 Break it, and bind it, wound and heal, 

Yea kill to make alive again ; 
Impress it with Thy Spirit's seal, 
The sacrifice were perfect then : — 

4 Perfect, yet aU unworthy still : 

But while in Jesus I believe. 
Who came on earth to do Thy will. 
From His dear hands my gift receive. 

5 Keceive it, with His blood bedew'd, 

Receive it, offered with His prayers. 
And, in Thine image thus renewed, 
Enroll me with Thy kingdom's heirs. 



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HYMN CLXIX. 

Self-Knowledge. 

1 Thine eye, Lord God, alone can see 

The soul through every secret part ; 
The mystery of iniquity 

Hid in the hollow of man's heart. 

2 Myself unto myself reveal. 

Light let me see in Thy pure light ; 
The eye of unbelief unseal, 

Change doubt to faith, and faith to sight : 

3 By inward vision to discern 

The misery of my fall'n estate, 
And from that sad disclosure learn 
Life's hardest lesson, ere too late : — 

4 Life's hardest lesson, but its best ! 

The source of all my ills to trace 
Through the dark windings of my breast, 
Or in the world's deceitful face. 

5 How long, how far on pilgrimage 

To Zion have I feign'd to go, 
Yet went astray at every stage. 
Snared or smit down by every foe ! 

6 Now, a poor way-worn traveller. 

With slower speed, and failing strength 
At every step I fear to err, 
And be a cast-away at length. 



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7 Thou Light, that lightenest every one 

Who toils through this bewildering path, 
Shine on my soul, that I may shun 

The broad, dark, downward road to wrath. 

8 So let that narrow path be mine. 

Which, level as the morning ray, 
Like it, shall upward tend, and shine, 

From earth's faint dawn to heaven's full 
day. 



HYMN CLXX. 

Self-discoveries. 

Lord, when we search the human heart, 
We find a fallen world within ; 

There is no health in any part. 

Sin reigns throughout, and death by sin. 

Large provinces are pagan still, 

Where other lords dominion share ; 

Idols of mind, affection, wall. 

The Power of darkness triumphs there. 

Here, the false prophet's wild domains. 
Where Lust, and Cruelty, and Hate, 

With baleful passions fire the veins. 
And seal the conscience up in fate. 

'Midst all, the stubborn, stiff-neck'd Jew, 
Blind, like his kindred, prone to roam. 

Denies the Saviour whom he slew. 

Mammon his God, and earth his home. 



OKIGINAL HYMNS. 173 

5 The smallest portion of the whole 

Some beams of heavenly truth pervade ; 
Slowly the day-spring o'er the soul 

Breaks through the fogs of nature's shade. 

6 I know a bosom, which within 

Contains the world's sad counterpart ; 
'Tis here, — the reign of death and sin ; 
God ! evangelize my heart ! 

7 Then will I strive through earth's whole 

round, 
Thy name. Thy knowledge to diffuse ; 
And send the Gospel's joyful sound 
To Pagans, Infidels, and Jews. 

8 From Christian hearts divinely changed, 

Were the world's likeness thus to part, 
That world, from God no more estranged, 
Would soon be like the Christian's heart. 



HYMN CLXXI. 

I have sinned against the LorcV — 2 Sam. xii. 13. 

1 I LEFT the God of truth and hght, 

I left the God who gave me breath. 
To wander in the wilds of night. 
And perish in the snares of death. 

2 Sweet was His service, and His yoke 

Was light and easy to be borne ; 

Through all His bands of love I broke, 

I cast away His gifts with scorn. 



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3 I danced in folly's giddy maze, 

And drank the sea, and chased the wind; 
But falsehood lurk'd in all her ways, 
Her laughter left remorse behind. 

4 I dream'd of bliss in pleasure's bowers. 

While pillowing roses stayed my head ; 
But serpents hiss'd among the flowers ; 
I woke, and thorns were all my bed. 

5 In riches, when I sought for joy, 

And placed in sordid gain my trust, 
I found that gold was all alloy, 

And worldly treasure — fleeting dust. 

6 I woo'd ambition, climb'd the pole. 

And shone among the stars, — but fell, 
Headlong in all my pride of soul, 
Like Lucifer, from heaven to hell. 

7 Heart-broken, friendless, poor, cast down, 

Where shall the chief of sinners fly. 
Almighty Vengeance ! from thy frown — 
Eternal Justice ! from thine eye ? 

8 Lo, through the gloom of guilty fears. 

My faith discerns a dawn of grace ; 
The Sun of Eighteousness appears 
In Jesus' reconciling face. 

9 My suffering, slain, and risen Lord, 

In sore distress I turn to Thee, 
I claim acceptance on Thy word. 
My God ! my God ! forsake not me. 

10 Prostrate before the mercy seat, 

I dare not, if I would, despair ; 
None ever perish'd at Thy feet*. 
And I will lie for evei there. 



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HYMN CLXXII. 

In great Tribulation. 

God ! be merciful to me, « 

For my spirit trusts in Thee, 

And to Thee, her refuge springs : 

Be the shadow of thy wings 

Bound the trembling sinner cast, 

Till this storm is overpast. 

From the water-floods that roll 
Deep and deeper round my soul. 
Me, Thine arm Almighty take, 
For thy loving-kindness' sake ; 
If Thy truth from me depart, 
Thy rebuke will break my heart. 

Foes increase, they close me round, 
Friend nor comforter is found ; 
Sore temptations now assail, 
Hope and strength and courage fail ; 
Turn not from Thy servant's grief. 
Hasten, Lord, to my relief. 

Poor and sorrowful am I, 
Set me, my God ! on high : 
Wonders Thou for me hast wrought ; 
Nigh to death my soul is brought ; 
Save me, Lord, in mercy save, 
Lest I sink below the grave. 



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HYMN CLXXIII. 

" saxie me for thy mei^cies^ sake.^'^ — ^Ps. vi. 4. 

1 Mercy alone can meet my case ; 

For mercy, Lord, I cry ; 
Jesus ! Kedeemer ! show thy face 
In mercy, or I die. 

2 Save me, for none beside can save ; 

At thy command I tread. 
With faihng step, hfe's stormy wave ; 
The wave goes o'er my head. 

3 I perish, and my doom were just ; 

But wilt thou leave me ? No : 
I hold Thee fast, my hope, my trust, 
I will not let Thee go. 

4 Still sure to me Thy promise stands, 

And ever must abide ; 
Behold it written on Thy hands, 
And graven in Thy side. 

5 To this, this only, will I cleave, 

Thy word is all my plea ; 
Thy word is truth, and I believe : 
Have mercy, Lord, on me. 



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HYMN CLXXIV. 

The Assurance of Hope. — ^Isaiah, liv. 10. 

" The mountains shall depart. 

The hills shall he removed, 

Faithful, Lord ! Thou art, 

Faithful hast ever proved, 

And faithful to eternity, 

Thy word of promise stands to me. 

" That hlessed word I prove, 

I know Thee as Thou art ; 

Thy kindness will not move, 

Nor can Thy truth depart ; 

With me. Thy covenant of peace 

Is seal'd, is sure, and shall not cease." 

Thus may the mourner say 

In the dark hour of grief, 

When the first trembling ray 

Of comfort darts relief 

Into the dungeon of his soul, 

Till love, joy, peace, illume the whole. 

Down, then, the dungeon falls, 
A palace -straight upsprings, 
Salvation guards the walls. 
And lo ! the King of kings 
Enters with all his glorious train, 
For ever in that soul to reign. 



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HYMN CLXXV. 

The first of all the Commandments. — Mark, xii. 30. 

1 I WILL love the Lord ; for He 
From eternity loved me ; 

I will love the Lord, who gave 
His own Son my soul to save, 
And sends down, in love divine, 
His good Spirit to strive with mine. 

2 I will love the Son ; for He 
Loved, and gave Himself for me ; 
I will love Him on his cross. 

And for Him count all things loss ; 
I will love Him on his throne, 
When I know as I am known. 

3 I will love the Spirit ; for He 
Deigns in love to dwell with me ; 
I will love Him on my knees. 
Helping mine infirmities. 

Till my joyful lips record 

"Abba, Father ! " " Jesus, Lord ! " 

4 Thee, o'er all for ever blest. 
One, true, only God confest, 

I would love, with heart and mind, 
Soul and strength ; — but what can bind, 
my God ! my love to thee ! 
This alone. Thy love to me. 



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HYMN CLXXYI. 

Earnest Supplication^ wider Trials of Faith. — ^Ps. cxliii. 

1 Hear me, Lord ! in my distress, 
Hear me in truth and righteousness ; 
For, at Thy bar of judgment tried, 
None living can be justified. 

2 Lord ! I have foes without, within, 
The world, the flesh, indwelling sin. 
Life's daily ills, temptation's power, 
And Satan roaring to devour. 

3 These, these, my fainting soul surround, 
My strength is smitten to the ground ; 
Like those long dead, beneath their 

weight, 
Crush'd is my heart, and desolate. 

4 Yet in the gloom of silent thought, 

I call to mind what God hath wrought. 
Thy wonders in the days of old. 
Thy mercies great and manifold. 

5 Ah ! then to Thee I stretch my hands. 
Like fainting streams through desert sands ; 
I thirst for thee, as harvest plains, 
Parch'd by the summer, thirst for rains. 

6 let me not thus hopeless He 

Like one condemn'd at morn to die ; 
But with the morning may I see 
Thy loving kindness visit me. 



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7 Teach me Thy will, subdue my own ; 
Thou art my Grod, and Thou alone, 
By Thy good Spirit guide me still. 
Safe from all foes, to Zion's Hill. 

8 Kelease my soul from trouble. Lord, 
Quicken and keep me by Thy word ; 
May all its promises be mine ! 
Thou art my portion, — I am Thine. 



HYMN CLXXVII. 

For Peace of Mind. — Job, xxiii. 3, 4, 10, 16. 

]. THAT I knew where I might find 
My righteous Judge's seat. 
To pour out all my troubled mind 
In prayer before His feet ! 

2 Not with the thunder of Thy power 

Wouldst Thou against me plead ; 
No, Thy good Spirit, in that hour. 
For me would intercede. 

3 For me. Thy Son Himself would pray, 

Thy well-beloved Son ; 
Father ! Thou couldst not turn away 
From Thine anointed One. 

4 Thine own unutterable grace. 

Thy love, — Thy love to me. 
Constrain me thus to seek Thy face, 
And cast my cares on Thee. 



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5 Hear, then the voice of my desire, 

My griefs, my fears behold ; 
Search me and try me, as with fire. 
And bring me forth hke gold. 

6 Lord ! thou hast troubled my repose, 

Thy chastisements I feel ; 
Thine hand hath touched my heart — it glows, 
It melts, — impress Thy seal. 

7 Stamp Thine own Image on my soul, 

Lift from the dust mine head ; 
Lord ! Thou hast wounded, — make me 
whole ; 
Hast slain, — now raise the dead. 



HYMN CLXXVIII. 

In Bereavement, 

1 Lift up thine eyes, afflicted soul ! 

From earth uplift thine eyes, 
Though dark the shades of evening roll. 

And daylight beauty dies ; 
One sun is set, — a thousand more 

Their rounds of glory run. 
Where science leads thee to explore 

In every star a sun. 

2 Thus, when some long-loved comfort ends, 

And frailty would despair. 
Faith to the heaven of heavens ascends, 
And meets ten thousand there. 



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First faint and small, then clear and bright. 

They gladden all the gloom, 
As stars, that seem but points of light, 

The rank of suns assume. 



HYMN CLXXIX. 

In Affliction. 

1 " Father ! Thy will, not mine, be done ! 
So pray'd on earth Thy suffering Son ; 

So, in His Name I pray : 
The spirit fails, the flesh is weak ; 
Thy help in agony I seek ; 

! take this cup away. 

2 If such be not Thy Sovereign will, 
Thy wiser purpose then fulfill ; 

My wishes I resign. 
Into Thine hands my soul commend. 
On Thee for life or death depend ; 

Thy wiU be done, not mine. 



HYMN CLXXX. 

Surrender of all to God. 

Body and soul to Thee I give. 
As a thank-offering free, 

Living, — to Thee, My God, to live, 
Dying, — to die to Thee. 



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2 Then shall my tongue confess 

The virtue of Thy name, 
My heart believe to righteousness; 
My life Thy love proclaim. 

3 Yea, death itself shall be 

My passport of release, 
And the grave's vaunted victory. 
The sign and seal of peace, — 

4 The end of mortal strife ; 

In Jesus I shall sleep, 
Who, till I wake to endless life, 
My soul will safely keep. 

5 Sing — blessed are the dead, 

Who from their labours rest, 
Through Him who was their life, their head. 
Of j)erfect bliss possest. 



HXMN CLXXXI. 

A Com/plaint. 

In spirit when I took my flight 
Above the mount, to see 

My Lord, transfigured in the light 
Of His own Deity : — 

I cried, not knowing what I said, 
'"' 'Tis good to tarry here ! " 

But, when the heavenly vision fled. 
Transport gave way to fear. 



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3 No longer counting all things loss, 

To glory in His name, 
I thought it hard to bear the cross, 
Hard to despise the shame. 

4 Ah ! thus, my soul, it should not be ; 

Lord Jesus ! hear my prayer ; 
Give me a heart to follow Thee 
All times, and every where. 

5 Let but Thy presence with me go, 

Thy love be my delight. 
Then shall I walk, through weal or woe, 
By faith, and not by sight. 



HYMN CLXXXIl. 

An After- Thought. 

1 I CANNOT call affliction sweet, 

And yet 'twas good to bear : 
Affliction brought me to Thy feet, 
And 1 found comfort there. 

2 My weaned soul was all-resign'd 

To Thy most gracious will ; 
Oh ! had I kept that better mind. 
Or been afflicted still ! 

3 Where a^ the vows which then I vow'd. 

The joys which then I knew ? 
Those vanish'd, like the morning cloud, 
These like the early dew. 



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4 Lord, grant me grace for every day, 
Whate'er my state may be, 
Through life, in death, with tj^uth to say, 
" My God is all to me ! '^ 



HYMN CLXXXIII. 

The Prisoner of the Lord. 
(A Sabbath Meditation in a Sick Chamber.) 

Thousands, Lord of Hosts ! this day, 

Around Thine altar meet ; 
And tens of thousands throng to pay 

Their homage at Thy feet. 

They see Thy power and glory there. 

As I have seen them too ; 
They read, they hear, they join in prayer. 

As I was wont to do. 

They sing Thy deeds, as I have sung. 

In sweet and solemn lays ; 
Were I among them, my glad tongue 

Might learn new themes of praise. 

For Thou art in their midst to teach 
AVhen on Thy name they call. 

And Thou hast blessings, Lord, for each,- 
Hast blessings. Lord, for all. 

I, of such fellowship bereft, 

In spirit turn to Thee ; 
Oh ! hast not Thou a blessing left, 

A blessing. Lord, for me ? 



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6 The dew lies thick on all the ground ; 

Shall my poor fleece be dry ? 
The manna rains from heaven around ; 
Shall I of hunger die ? 

7 Behold Thy prisoner ; — loose my bands, 

If 'tis Thy gracious will : 
If not, — contented in Thy hands, 
Behold Thy prisoner still ! 

8 I may not to Thy courts repair, 

Yet here Thou surely art ; 
Lord, consecrate an house of prayer 
In my surrendered heart. 

9 To faith reveal the things unseen. 

To hope the joys untold ; 
Let love, without a veil between, 
Thy glory now behold. 

10 Oh ! make Thy face on me to shine, 

That doubt and fear may cease ; 
Lift up Thy countenance benign 
On me, — and give me peace. 



HYMN CLXXXIV. 

Despondency. 

1 Him wilt Thou keep in perfect peace, 
Whose mind is stay'd on Thee ; 
Me, Lord, from pining care release, 
And vain perplexity. 



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2 'Tis not the bleeding wounds of grief, 

Whose anguish I bemoan ; 
An evil heart of unbelief, 

A cold, hard heart of stone ; — 

3 O'er this, in loneliness, I wake. 

And darkness to be felt. 
Since Sinai's thunders cannot break. 
Nor Calvary's sufferings melt. 

4 Uncheer'd with hopes, unawed by fears, 

All comfort banish'd hence, 
for a burst of contrite tears ! 
A pang of penitence ! 

5 O for one grain of saving faith, 

Upspringing in my breast ! 
" Come unto Me," my Saviour saith, 
"And I will give thee rest. 

6 I hear, I know the joyful sound ; 

I fly that cairto meet. 
And find, what all who sought have found 
Best at His blessed feet. 



HYMN CLXXXY. 

Despondency Self- Corrected. — Ps. Ixxvii. 

1 In time of tribulation. 

Hear, Lord, my feeble cries, 
With humble supplication 
To Thee my spirit flies : 



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My heart with grief is breaking, 
Scarce can my voice complain ; 

Mine eyes, with tears kept waking, 
Still watch and weep in vain. 

2 The days of old, in vision. 

Bring vanish'd bliss to view ; 
The years of lost fruition 

Their joys in pangs renew ; 
Eemember'd songs of gladness. 

Through night's lone silence brought, 
Strike notes of deeper sadness. 

And stir desponding thought. 

3 Hath God cast off for ever ? 

Can time His truth impair ? 
His tender mercy, never 

Shall I presume to share ? 
Hath He His loving-kindness 

Shut up in endless wrath ? 
No ; — this is my own blindness. 

That cannot see His path. 

4 I call to recollection 

The years of His right hand. 
And, strong in His protection. 

Again through faith I stand : 
Thy deeds, Lord ! are wonder, 

Holy are all Thy ways, 
The secret place of thunder 

Shall utter forth Thy praise. 

5 Thee, with the tribes assembled, 

God ! the billows saw ; 



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They saw Thee, and they trembled, 
Turn'd, and stood still with awe : 

The clouds shot hail — they lightened, 
The earth reel'd to and fro ; 

The fiery pillar brightened 
The gulph of gloom below. 

Thy way is in great waters. 

Thy footsteps are not known ; 
Let Adam's sons and daughters 

Confide in Thee alone : 
Through the wild sea Thou leddest 

Thy chosen flock of yore ; 
Still on the waves Thou treadest, 

And Thy redeemed pass o'er. 



HYMN OLXXXYI. 

The Image of God. 

Father of eternal grace, 

Glorify Thyself in me : 
Meekly beaming in my face, 

May the world Thine image see. 

Happy only in Thy love, 

Poor, unfriended, or unknown. 

Fix my thoughts on things above, 
Stay my heart on Thee alone. 

Humble, holy, all-resign'd 

To Thy will,— Thy will be done ; 
Give me, Lord, the perfect mind 

Of Thy well-beloved Son. 



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Counting gain and glory loss, 
May I tread the path He trod. 

Die with Jesus on the cross, 

Kise with Him to Thee, my God ! 



HYMN CLXXXYII. 

Prayer for Humility. — Vs. cxxxi. 

1 Lord, for ever at Thy side. 

Let my place and portion be ; 
Strip me of the robe of pride, 
Clothe me with humility. 

2 Meekly may my soul receive 

All Thy Spirit hath reveaFd, 
Thou hast spoken ; — I believe 
Though the prophecy were seal'd. 

3 Quiet as a weaned child. 

Weaned from the mother's breast, 
By no subtlety beguiled, 
On thy faithful word I rest. 

4 Saints ! rejoicing evermore. 

In the Lord Jehovah trust ; 
Him in all his ways adore. 

Wise, and wonderful, and just. 



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HYMN CLXXXVIII. 

Psalm, cix. 21.; Micah, vi. 9. 

1 Sweet is Thy mercy, my God ! 

When humbled at Thy feet, 
I learn the lessons of Thy rod, 
Thy mercy, Lord, is sweet. 

2 For Thou dost not in wrath chastise. 

But when I go astray, 
" Keturn/' a voice behind me cries, 
" Walk here ; — this is the way.'' 

3 Impatient of Thine easy yoke, 

If heedless yet I roam. 
Some sharp affliction, with a stroke 
Of kindness, warns me home. 

4 That godly sorrow then I feel. 

Which nothing can control, 
Until the hand that w^ounded, heal, 
That bruised me, make me whole. 

5 As, at Thy word, the winds and waves 

From ocean-warfare cease ; 
That word my soul from shipwreck saves. 
Thy presence brings me peace. 

6 " Sweet is Thy mercy, my God ! " 

'Tis trasport to repeat. 
When Thou hast thrown aside the rod, 
*^ Thy mercy. Lord, is sweet ! " 



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HYMN CLXXXIX. 

Trust in the Lord. 

1 God is my strong salvation, 

What foe have I to fear ? 
In darkness and temptation, 

My Hght, my help is near : 
Though hosts encamp around me, 

Firm to the fight I stand : 
What terror can confound me, 

With God at my right hand ? 

2 Place on the Lord reliance, 

My soul, with courage wait ; 
His truth be thine affiance. 

When faint and desolate : 
His might thine heart shall strengthen, 

His love thy joy increase ; 
Mercy thy days shall lengthen, 

"■ The Lord will give thee peace." 



HYMN CXC. 

Thanksgiving for Deliverance from Trouble. — ^Ps. xxx. 

1 Yea, I will extol Thee 

Lord of life and Hght, 
For Thine arm upheld me, 

Turn'd my foes to flight : 
I implored Thy succour. 

Thou wert swift to save, 
Heal my wounded spirit, 

Bring me from the grave. 



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Sing, ye saints, sing praises ! 

Call His love to mind, 
For a moment angry. 

But for ever kind ; 
Grief may, like a stranger, 

Through the night sojom'n, 
Yet shall joy, to-morrow, 

With the sun return. 
In my wealth I vaunted, 

" Nought shall move me hence ; 
Thou hast made my mountain, 

Strong in Thy defence : " — 
Then Thy face was hidden. 

Trouble laid me low, 
" Lord," I cried right humbly, 

" Why forsake me so ? " 
" Would my blood apjDcase Thee, 

In atonement shed ? 
Can the dust give glory ? — 

Praise employ the dead ? 
Hear me. Lord, in mercy, 

God, my Helper, hear." 
— Long Thou didst not tarry, 

Help and health were near. 
Thou hast turn'd my mourning 

Into minstrelsy. 
Girded me with gladness. 

Set from thraldom free : 
Thee my ransom'd powers 

Henceforth shall adore. 
Thee, my great Deliverer, 

Laud for evermore. 9 



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HYMN CXCI. 

'' Lovest thou Me? — John, xxi. 15 — 17. 

1 " TiOVEST thou Me ? " I hear my Saviour say ; 

Would that my heart had power to answer 
" Tea/' 
Thou knowest all things, Lord, in heaven 
above, 
And earth beneath ; Thou knowest that I 
love.'' 

2 But 'tis not so ; in word, in deed, in thought, 

I do not, cannot love Thee as I ought ; 
Thy love must give that power. Thy love 

alone ; 
There's nothing worthy of Thee but Thine 

own. 

3 Lord, with the love wherewith Thou lovest 

me, 
Keflected on Thyself, I ivould love Thee ; 
Thence on my brethren shed, might it be seen 
By all around, that I with Thee had been. 



HYMN OXCIL 

For Divine Protection on a Day's Journey, 

1 I TAKE the journey of a day, 

Thy sun. Lord, gives me light ; 
The moon and stars. Thy voice obey, 
And watch me through the night. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 195 

For mercies every hour bestow'd 

Unceasing thanks are due ; 
Now, 'midst the dangers of the road, 

LoRDj bring me safely through. 
Upheld by Thine Almighty arm, 

And guided by Thine eye, 
Storms cannot crush, nor lightnings harm, 

Sickness nor plague come nigh. 
Thou art Thy people's sun and shield. 

Their glory and defence ; 
All elements allegiance yield 

To sovereign Providence. 
But not in Providence alone 

The Godhead's footsteps shine. 
In grace are mightier wonders shown. 

Of love and power divine. 
As these thus far on pilgrimage, 

My lengthen'd course attend. 
So may they lead me stage by stage. 

To mine appointed end. 
When all my journey ings here must cease, 

And life no more shall be ; 
Lord, let me then depart in peace, 

From every tiring but Thee. 



HYMN CXCIII. 

Prayers on Pilgrimage. 
I. 
1 In the hour of trial, 
Jesus, pray for me. 



196 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

Lest, by base denial, 
I de23art from Thee : 

When Thou seest me waver, 
With a look recall, 

Nor, for fear or favour. 
Suffer me to fall. 

2 With its witching pleasures. 

Would this vain world charm. 
Or its sordid treasures. 

Spread to work me harm ; 
Bring to my remembrance 

Sad Gethsemane, 
Or, in darker semblance, 

Cross-crown'd Calvary. 

3 If, with sore affliction. 

Thou in love chastise. 
Pour Thy benediction 

On the sacrifice ; 
Then, upon Thine altar. 

Freely offered up. 
Though the flesh may falter. . 

Faith shall drink the cup. 

4 When in dust and ashes. 

To the grave I sink, 
While heaven's glory flashes 

O'er the shelving brink. 
On Thy truth relying. 

Through that mortal strife. 
Lord, receive me, dying. 

To eternal life. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 197 

HYMN CXCIV. 

Prayers on Pilgrimage. — " Lord helpmey — Matt. xv. 25. 
II. 

1 Blessed be Thy name, 
Jesus Christ ! — the same 
Yesterday, to-day, for ever, 

What from Thee my soul shall sever, 
While I hear Thy voice, 
And in Thee rejoice ? 

2 Guide me with Thine eye ; 
Warn to light or fly. 
When the foe, a lion raging. 
Or, v^ith serpent guile assuaging, 
Comes in wrath to tear, 

Or by fraud ensnare. 

3 Hold me with Thine hand, 
For by faith I stand ; 

On Thy strength my sole reliance. 
In Thy truth my whole affiance ; 
Then where'er I roam, 
I am travelling home. 

4 Lord, Thy word is light ; 
Led by it aright. 

When a pilgrim, hke my Fathers, 
Life's last shadow round me gathers, 
May its brightening ray 
Shine to perfect day. 

5 With my latest breath, 
Overcoming death, 



198 ORIGINAL HYMNS, 

From the body disencumber'd 
With thy Saints in glory numbered, 
Jesus, may I be 
Found in peace with Thee. 



HYMN CXCV. 

The Heritage of the LorcPs People. — Rev. xxi. 5 — 7- 

1 " He that overcomes through me, 
Shall an heir of all things be, 

I his God, and he My Son," 
Saith the True and Holy One. 

2 What an heritage were this ! 
An eternity of bliss, 

Heaven below and heaven above, 
the miracle of love ! 

3 " Abba ! Father ! " then might I 
Through the Holy Spirit cry ; 

Heir of God, with Christ joint-heir, 
Grace and glory calFd to share. 

4 Can a worm such gifts receive ? 
Fear not, faint not, but believe, 
He who gave His Son, shall He 
Any good withhold from thee ? 

5 Know that thus the Father wilFd, 
Thus the Son His task fulliird, 
That the Holy Ghost might thus 
Dwell — the Deity in us. 



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6 Amen ! true and faithful One, 
So in me Thy work be done ; 
Into nothing let me fall, 
Thou, my God, be all in all. 



HYMN CXCVI. 

For Divine Manifestations. 

1 Hid in the rock-cleft, let me stand. 

While Thou art passing by, 
But from the glory, with Thine hand. 
Lord, screen me, or I die. 

2 On Sinai Thy pavilion spread. 

Speak from the fire to me, 
If trembling I may turn my head 
To noon-dark Calvary. 

3 Come with the whirlwind, earthquake, flame. 

Yet shall my soul rejoice. 
To hear them followed by Thy name, 
Told in the still small voice. 

4 Be mercy mingled with the cup, 

My Father gives to drink, 
Lest over-sorrow swallow up 
The spirit prone to sink. 

5 And when, before the great white throne, 

With all the human race, 
I stand, as though I stood alone, 
My God, may I find grace ! 



200 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CXCVII. 

The Believer's sure Trust. — Hab. iii. 17, 18. 

1 Though the fig-tree's blossom fail, 

And the vines should bring no fruit ; 
Though the olivej smit with hail, 

Cast its foliage round the root ; 
Though the fields should yield no meat, 

And the herds forsake the stall, 
In the folds no flocks should bleat 

At the shepherd's well-known call : — 

2 Yet will I in GtOd rejoice. 

In Jehovah I will trust, 
And extol, with heart and voice. 

His salvation from the dust ; 
He can raise my fallen head. 

He can all my sickness cure ; • 

God will give His children bread. 

And their water shall be sure. 



HYMN CXCVIII. 

The still small Voice. — 2 Kings, xix. 11, 12. 

1 The wind that brake the rocks, and'rent 

The mountains in its path ; 
The ea'rthquake and the fire that went 

Before the Lord in wrath, 
Came not as spoilers to the prey, 
But heralds to prepare His way. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 201 

Himself the still small voice made known, 

In all His power and grace ; 
So be to me his mercy shown, 

Terror to love give place : 
Than will I hide my face, and stay 
To hear what God the Lord will say. 



HYMN CXCIX. 

Let Brotherly Love continue. — Ps. cxxxiii. 

How beautiful the sight 
Of brethren \f ho agree 
In friendship to unite, 
And bonds of charity ! 
'Tis like the precious ointment, shed 
O'er all his robes, from Aaron's head. 

'Tis like the dews that fill 

The cups of Hermon's flowers ; 
Or Zion's fruitful hill. 

Bright with the drops of showers, 
When mingling odours breathe around, 
And glory rests on all the ground. 

For there the Lord commands 
Blessings, a boundless store. 
From His unsparing hands — 
Yea, life for evermore ; 
Thrice happy they who meet above 
To spend eternity in love. 



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HYMN CC. 

The Church Militant learning the Church Triumphanfi 
Spjig. 

1 Sing we the song of those who stand 

Around the eternal throne, 
Of every kindred, chme, and land, 
A multitude unknown. 

2 Life's poor distinctions vanish here ; 

To-day the young, the old. 
Our Saviour and His flock appear 
One Shepherd and one fold. 

3 Toil, trial, suflering, still await 

On earth the pilgrim-throng. 
Yet learn we, in our low estate. 
The Church-triumphant's song. 

4 '^ Worthy the Lamb for sinners slain," 

Cry the redeemed above, 
" Blessing and honour to obtain. 
And everlasting love." 

5 " Worthy the Lamb ! " on earth we sing, 

" Who died our souls to save ; 
Henceforth, Death ! where is thy sting ? 
Thy victory, Grave ? " 

6 Then, Hallelujah ! power and praise 

To God in Christ be given ; 
May all who now this anthem raise 
Renew the strain in heaven ! 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 203 

HYMN CCI. 

Psalm xcvi. 1. 2. 

1 Sing a new song unto the Lord ; 

His mercies, every morning new, 
His truth and faithfulness record ; 
Give to our God the glory due. 

2 God is the Lord ; around His throne 

In heaven, adoring seraphim, 
And ransom'd saints, ascribe alone 
All power, might, majesty, to Him. 

3 On earth His church impregnable, 

Built on the rock of ages, stands. 
And yet, against the gates of hell. 
Shall send salvation through all lands. 

4 Thou, by whose word the worlds were made, 

In wisdom and in goodness framed. 
By every creature be obey'd, 

By every tongue Thy praise proclaimed. 

5 Let Britain's children, most of all 

Beholden for their lot of grace, 
Kejoice to hear their Saviour's call. 
And seek their heavenly Father's face. 

6 So the new song we now begin 

Shall never cease while we have breath, 
Through Him who suffer'd for our sin. 
And by His death abolish'd death. 



204 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN ecu. 

For the Centenary JuMlee of a Christian Church. 

1 Now in holy convocation, 

Hands, and hearts, and voices raise, 
In one hymn of jubilation. 

To our great Redeemer's praise ; 

" Ebenezer ! '' 
He hath led us all our ways. 

2 " Ebenezer ! " Those before us, 

Sang at every onward stage ; 

This to-day shall swell the chorus 

In our house of pilgrimage : 

May our children 
Sing the same from age to age ! 

3 So in heaven, when all the story 

Of His love to us is shown. 
Be our earliest song in glory, 

" Ebenezer ! " round the Throne ; 

While for ever. 
We shall know as we are known. 



HYMN CCIIL 

The Lai^se of Time. ■ . 

1 Moments and minutes, hours and days. 

To weeks, and months, and years amount ; 
Not one beyond its date delays : 

For these we each must soon account. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 205 

2 How well, how ill, howe'er employed, 

Our health, our strength, our talents lent ; 
All we have suffered and enjoy'd, 
In wisdom or in folly spent : — 

3 The secret things in darkness seaFd, 

All we have felt, thought, spoken, done ; 
In heaven's pure light must be reveaFd, 
When time's last act puts out the sun. 

5 With every twinkling of an eye. 

With every step, pulse, motion, breath ; 
The longest human life draws nigh. 
And nigher to the gates of death. 

5 The past we never can recall, 

The present none has power to hold ; 
The future is not — few of all 

The millions born on earth grow old. 

6 What, then, are we, and whither bent ? 

Our Saviour calls — let us obey ; 

This moment, minute, hour, repent, 

And live for ever from this day. 



HYMN CCIV. 

Mercies aclcnowledged. 

Less than the least of all 
Thy mercies, Lord are we ; 

Yet, for the greatest we may call. 
The greatest are most free. 



206 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

2 Thy Son Thou didst not spare, 

Yet us Thou sparest still, 
Him didst Thou send our guilt to bear, 
Our righteousness fulfil. 

3 For such amazing grace. 

What can poor sinners give ? 
At Thy command, we seek Thy face, 
We meet our Judge, and live. 

4 The world we would forsake, 

Our all to Thee resign ; 
save us for Thy mercies sake ! 
save us, — we are Thine ! 

5 Meanwhile, as pilgrims here. 

Who seek our home above. 
Thee may we serve, with holy fear. 
And love, with child-like love. 



HYMN GOV. 

Providence. 

The tender mercies of our Lord, 
And His long suffering grace. 

The loving kindness of His word. 
We every moment trace. 

Our bread is given, our water sure, 
Body and soul sustained, 

! may we to the end endure. 
Till heaven itself is gain'd ! 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 207 

HYMN CCYI. 

The Family Altar. 

1 Food, raiment, dwelling, health and friends, 

Thou, Lord, hast made our lot ; 
With Thee our bliss begins and ends. 
As we are Thine, or not. 

2 For these we bend the humble knee, 

Our grateful spirits bow ; 
Yet from Thy gifts we turn to Thee — 
Be Thou our portion. Thou ! 



HYMN CCYII. 

The Family Table. 

1 Be known to us in breaking bread, 

But do not then depart ; 
Saviour, abide with us, and spread 
Thy table in our heart. 

2 There sup with us in love divine ; 

Thy body and Thy blood, 
^ That living bread, that heavenly wine, 
Be our immortal food. 



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HYMN covin. 

Morning. 
I. 

1 What secret hand, at morning-light, 

By stealth, unseals mine eye, 
Draws back the curtain of the night, 
And opens earth and sky ? 

2 'Tis thine, my God ! the same that kept 

My resting hours from harm ; 

No ill came nigh me, for I slept 

Beneath the Almighty's arm. 

3 'Tis Thine, — my daily bread that brings, 

Like manna scattered round : 
And clothes me, as the lily springs. 
In beauty from the ground. 

4 This is the hand that shaped my frame, 

And gave my pulse to beat ; 
That bare me oft through flood and flame. 
Through tempest, cold, and heat. 

5 In death's dark valley, though I stray, 

'T would there my steps attend, 
Guide with Thy staff my lonely way, 
And with Thy rod defend. 

6 May that dear hand uphold me still. 

Through life's uncertain race. 
To bring me to Thy holy Hill, 
And to Thy dwelling place ! 



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HYMN CCIX. 

Morning. 
II. 

1 The blessing of a night's repose 

Hath been vouchsafed to me : 
Mine eyes from slumber I unclose. 
And find myself with Thee. 

2 The living, Lord ! the living, they 

Shall praise Thy name ; — the dead 
Are silenced till the judgment-day, 
Each resting on his bed. 

3 Had death's dark hand at midnight broke 

The seal of life, and freed 
My spirit from this earthly yoke, 
Had I been free indeed ? 

4 Free from the flesh, and all its ills, 

The world and Satan free, 
To range the everlasting hills 
In sinless liberty ? 

5 Or, having sold myself for nought. 

For ever rue the cost. 
Bound on the wheel of one dire thought, 
" My soul, my soul is lost ! " 

6 God ! Thy people's hope of old. 

Early I seek Thy face ; 
And bless Thy name that I behold 
Another day of grace. 



210 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN COX. 

Morning. 

III. 

1 My GrOD, beneath Thy watching eye, 

I laid me down and slept ; 
Thy tender mercy, ever nigh, 
In peace my spirit kept. 

2 Under the shadow of Thy wings. 

My weary limbs reposed, 
And, undisturbed by earthly things, 
A day of labour closed. 

3 Safe in Thine everlasting arms, 

That compass'd me around. 
Body and soul, from outward harms, 
And inward fears were found. 

4 Thus, till the morn in beauty broke, 

My sleep was sweet to me ; 
Thy voice then calFd me, I awoke. 
And found myself with Thee. 

5 Humbly beside my couch I knelt. 

And while I strove to pray. 
The earnest in my heart I felt 
Of blessings through the day. 

6 Oh ! oft, to cheer me, to and fro. 

By restless passions driven. 
Such nights of calm from care and woe, 
Such days of hope be given. 



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HYMN CCXI. 

Noon. 

1 Full speed along the world's highway, 

By crowds of eager travellers trod, 
My soul, my soul, a moment stay, 
To hold communion with thy God. 

2 He spake with Abraham at the oak, 

He caird Elisha from the plough, 
David He from the sheep-folds took ; 
Thy day. Thy hour of grace is now. 

3 Earth, with thy vanities, depart ! 

My God, I stand alone with Thee ; 
Thine eye is looking on my heart ; 
Oh ! what a noon is risen on me ! 

4 Struck to the ground, like conscious Saul^ 

And blinded with the sudden view. 
Trembling, astonished, " Lord," I call, 
^^ What wouldst Thou have Thy servant 
do ? " 

5 My sins, as fresh-committed, rise ; 

My secret sins, by darkness seal'd, 
Before my Judge's flaming eyes. 
Are all in naked guilt reveal'd. 

6 Lord, lay Thine hand upon my head ; 

A touch, a word, will make me whole ; 
Speak with the voice that wakes the dead, 
Peace, pardon, comfort, to my soul. 



212 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

6 Then, though I shudder at Thy sight, 
Through Him who my oifences bore, 
In light, as GrOD is in the hght, 
I walk by faith, and sin no more. 

HYMN CCXII. 

Midnight. 

1 In a land of strange delight, 

My transported spirit stray'd ; 
I awake, where all is night. 
Silence, solitude, and shade. 

2 Is the dream of nature flown ? 

Is the universe destroyed ? 
Man extinct, and I alone. 

Breathing through the formless void ? 

3 No, my soul, in God rejoice ; 

Through the gloom. His light I see ; 
In the silence hear His voice. 
And I feel His hand on me. 

4 When I slumber in the tomb. 

He will guard my resting-place, 
When I wake to meet my doom, 
May I see Him face to face. 



HYMN CCXIII. 

A Night TJiougJit. 

1 Thee, in the watches of the night, 
My spirit would adore. 



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O.God ! in darkness, as in light, 

Defend me evermore. 
Yet not in Providence alone, 

In grace, Thyself impart ; 
Erect Thy temple, fix Thy throne, 

Rule Thou within my heart. 
The morn and evening sacrifice, 

The noon and midnight prayer, 
I know that Thou wilt not despise, 

When meekly offer'd there. 
Though heaven and earth Thy presence fill,^ 

Thou surely art, Lord, 
With Him who loves and 'does Thy will, 

Who hears and keeps Thy word. 
Henceforth be this the aim and end 

Of all my life below. 
Till to the tomb my dust descend, 

To Thee my s]3irit go. 



HYMN CCXIV. 

The Issues of Life and Deatli. 

WHERE shall rest be found, 

Rest for the weary soul ? 
'Twere vain the ocean-depths to sound, 

Or pierce to either pole ; 
The world can never give 

The bliss for which we sigh ; 
'Tis not the lohoU of life to live ; 

Nor all of death to die. 



214 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

2 Beyond this vale of tears, 

There is a life above. 
Unmeasured by the flight of years 

And all that life is love ; — 
There is a death, whose pang 

Outlasts the fleeting breath ; 
what eternal horrors hang 

Around " the second death ! " 

Lord God of truth and sfrace. 



'J 
Teach us that death to shun. 



Lest we be banish'd from Thy face, 

And evermore undone : 
Here would we end our quest ; 

Alone are found in Thee, 
The life of perfect love, — the rest 

Of immortality. 



HYMN CCXV. 

Life, Death, and Judgment. — Job xiv. 1 — 3. 11 — 13. 

1 Few, few and evil are thy days, 

Man, of a woman born ; 
• Peril and trouble haunt thy ways ; 
Forth, like a flower at morn. 
The tender infant springs to light, 

Youth blossoms to the breeze, 
Age, withering age, is cropt ere night ; 
Man like a shadow flees. 



OKIGINAL HYMNS. 215 

And dost thou look on such an one ? 

Will God to judgment call 
A worm, for what a worm hath done 

Against the Lord of all ? 
As fail the waters from the deep, 

As summer-hrooks run dry, 
Man lieth down in dreamless sleep, 

His life is vanity. 

Man lieth down, no more to wake, ' 

Till yonder arching sphere 
Shall, with a roll of thunder, hreak, 

And nature disappear. 
hide me, till Thy wrath be past, 

Thou who canst slay or save ! 
Hide me, where hope may anchor fast, 

In my Kedeemer's grave. 



HYMN CCXVL 

Past^ Present^ Future. 

1 A HUNDRED years ago, not one 

Of us had sprung to birth ; 
A hundred years to come, and none 
Can hope to walk this earth. 

2 We are, we were not ! here our mind 

Looks round with hopes and fears ; 
This point is Time ; before, behind, 
Eternity appears. 



216 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

3 'Tis yet, througli grace, within our power, 

To choose what we would be ; 
On the decision of an hour, 
Depends eternity. 

4 This hour, this moment, let us take 

The narrow upward path ; 
This hour, this moment, all forsake 
The broad down road to wrath. 

5 Lord, our Shepherd ! lest like sheep, 

Thy children go astray, 
Feed us with knowledge, guide and keep 
Our souls in Thy right way. 

6 So, when a hundred years are fled. 

Remembering this day's choice, 
On earth, though number'd with the dead, 
In heaven, may we rejoice. 



HYMN CCXVII. 

The Measures of Time. 

A CHILD, a youth, a man, 

The whole of life below ! 
Our time a breath, our course a span ; 

Whence come we ? whither go ? 

Whence come we ? — From the womb 

Of dark eternity ; 
And thither go we, through the tomb,- 

Behold a mystery ! 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 217 

3 For though with worms and dust 

His mortal rehcs lie. 
Death may not hold or harm the just ; 
The spirit cannot die. 

4 On angels' wings afar, 

'Tis, by a path unknown, 
Beyond the range of sun or star, 
Caught up before the throne : — 

5 At rest in Paradise, 

With Him in bliss to live, 
Who bought it with so great a price. 
Heaven could no higher give : — 

6 Till at the trumpet's sound, 

When soul and body meet, 
They twain are one again, and found 
In Christ, a saint complete. 

7 By His good Spirit taught. 

While train'd on earth, may we 
Be thus by grace to glory brought, 
And immortality. 



HYMN CCXVIII. 

Man^s Birth^ Deaths and Judgment. 

Nothing into this world we brought. 

And nothing can we take away ; 
Oft be the themes of earnest thought, 
Man's birth, man's death, man's judg- 
ment-day. 
10 



218 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

2 For each belongs to each of us ; 

Time past, time present, time to be, 
To young and old, determine thus 
The issues of eternity. 

3 All are born poor, howe'er unlike. 

Their lot through life ; and all go down 
Poor to the dust : — the darts that strike 
The slave, strike him who wears a crown. 

4 That name which each on earth has borne, 

Kenown'd, inglorious, or obscure. 
E'en from his gravestone shall be worn ; 
Nought under heaven can endure. 

5 In the Lamb's book of life alone, 

The everlasting page records, 
In open view before the throne, 

The names of those who are the Lord's. 

6 When on the volume of that book 

While small and great are gathered round. 
The Judge of quick and dead shall look. 
Be all our names unblotted found. 



HYMN CCXIX. 

Life with its injinite Alternatives. 

1 On our span-long pilgrimage, 

. Youth, maturity, old age. 

What is life ? — a passing breath : 
Time ? — a step from birth to death. 



0RIC4INAL HYMNS. 219 

2 On that step, that breath, that span, 
Hang the destinies of man ; 

Not on tliis poor earth alone, 

But through worlds unseen, unknown. 

3 Here a paradise of bliss. 
There a bottomless abyss. 

At the saint's or sinner's feet, 
Fraught with joys or terrors meet. 

4 While we walk by faith below, 
G-race direct the way we go, 
Through thy gloom, Gethsemane ! 
O'er thy height, sad Calvary ! 

5 Thus in travelling from afar. 

Be Christ's cross our leading star, 
And His garden-grave our rest. 
When life's sun goes down the west. 

6 There in hope our dust be found. 
When the years have fill'd their round, 
Sown in weakness, raised with power, 
In the new creation's hour. 



HYMN CCXX. 
For Old Age — Ps. Ixxi. 

1 Lord, I have put my trust in Thee, 
Turn not my confidence to shame ; 
Thy promise is a rock to me, 
A tower of refuge is Thy name. 



220 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

2 Thou hast upheld me from the womb ; 

Thou wert my strength and hope in youth ; 
Now trembling, bending o'er the tomb, 
I lean upon Thine arm of truth. 

3 Though I have long outlived my peers, 

And stand amid the world alone, 
(A stranger left by former years), 

I know my God,— by Him am known. 

4 Cast me not off in mine old age. 

Forsake me not in my last hour ; 
The foe hath not foregone his rage, 
The lion ravins to devour. 

5 Not fer, my GrOD, not far remove : 

Sin and the world still spread their snares, 
Stand by me now, or they will prove 
Too crafty yet for my grey hairs. 

6 Me through what troubles hast Thou brought, 

Me with what consolations crown'd ! 
Now be Thy last deliverance wrought. 
My soul in peace with Thee be found. 



HYMN CCXXI. 

Preparation through Life unto Death. 

1 The end of all things is at hand, 
Sober, and watchful let us be. 
And firm to our profession stand, 
In faith and hope and charity. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 221 

2 Satan, our adversary knows 

The limit of his lawless power, 
Yet like a roaring lion goes 

Forth, seeking whom he may devom*. 

3 The shield of faith then let us take ; 

From his assaults to guard our hearts. 
And quench, though from the burning lake. 
The force of all his fiery darts. 

4 The gospel-hope be, too, our stay. 

When doubt and unbelief prevail, 
Our comfort in the evil day. 

Our strength when flesh and spirit fail. 

5 And charity, that bond of peace. 

The source and soul of pure delights, 
Sweet charity, that shall not cease, 
• But man with God, through Christ, 
unites : — 

6 That holiest unction from above 

Be shed on our afi'ections here. 
Till all are perfected in love. 

And perfect love hath cast out fear. 



HYMN CCXXTI. 

The Flight of Time an incentive to Religious Diligence 

1 To-day is added to our time. 

Yet while we sing, it glides away ; 
How soon shall we be past our prime ; 
For where, alas ! is yesterday ? 



222 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

2 Gone — gone into eternity : 

There, every day in turn appears ; 
To-morrow — 'twill never be, 

If we should live a thousand years ! 

3 Our time is all to-day, to-day, 

The same, though changed ; — and while 
it flies, 
With still small voice the moments say — 
'^ To-day, to-day, be wise, be wise ! " 

4 Then wisdom from above impart, 

Lord God ! send forth Thy light and 
truth. 
To guide our feet, inform our heart, 
And make us Christians from our youth. 



HYMN CCXXIIT. 

The Body dies ; the Soul suffers no Decay. 

1 Time grows not old with length of years ^ 

Changes he brings, but changes not ; 
New born each moment he appears ; 
We run our race, and are forgot. 

2 Stars in perennial rounds return, 

As from eternity they came, 
And to eternity might burn ; 

We are not for one hour the same. 

3 Spring flowers renew their glad perfume, 

But ere a second spring they fly ; 
Our life is longer than their bloom. 
Our bloom is sweeter, — yet we die. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 223 

Stars, like spring-flowers, shall pass away ; 

Time, like the stars, must cease to roll : 
We have what never can decay, — 

Like flowers and stars and time, — a sonl. 

Lord God ! when time shall end his flight, ^ 
Stars set and flowers revive no more ; 

May we behold. Thy face in light. 
Thy love in Jesus Christ adore. 



HYMN CCXXIV. 

The Value of a Moment. 

1 At every motion of our breath, 
Life trembles on the brink of death, 
A taper's flame that upward turns, 
While downward to the dust it burns. 

2 A moment usher'd us to birth. 
Heirs to the commonwealth of earth ; 
Moment by moment years are past. 
And one ere long will be our last. 

3 'Twixt that, long fled, which gave us light, 
And that which soon shall end in night, 
There is a point no eye can see, 

Yet on it hangs eternity. 

4 This is that moment, — who can tell 



Whether it leads to heaven or hell ? 
This is that moment, — as we choose, 
The immortal soul we save or lose. 



224 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

5 Time past and time to come are not ; 
Time present is our only lot ; 
. God ! henceforth om^ hearts incline 
To seek no other love than thine. 



HYMN CCXXV. 

Translation of a para])hrase of part of chap, xxxi, of 
Jeremiah, by the late FeHx N'eff, Pastor of the High 
Alps : sung at his bedside, a little before his death, by 
some of his friends. 

1 Weep no more, Zion, dry thy streaming tears, 
The Eternal is thy GrOD, dismiss thy fears ; 
Kest in the land of peace for thee remains, 
Jehovah leads thee, Israel's strength sustains. 

2 He will restore thee, ev'n as from the dead, 
O'er ruin'd heaps the vine and olive spread ; 
He will rehuild, as in thy happiest hours. 
Thy city walls, thy battlements and towers. 

3 A day will come, a day when from on high, 
Mount Ephraim's watchmen to the tribes 

shall cry. 
Return, ye rebels ; 'tis your Sovereign's will 
That calls you ; come and climb his holy hill. 

4 Rise, unforgotten by thy Lord above. 
He loved thee with an everlasting love ; 
That love, at trumpet's sound, in joyful 

throngs, 
Thy sons, Zion ! now extol in songs. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 225 

HYMN CCXXVI. 

The Living and the Dead. 

1 Where are the dead ? In heaven or hell, 
Their disembodied spirits dwell ; 
Their buried forms in bonds of clay, 
Eeserved until the judgment day. 

2 WliO were the dead ? The sons of time 
In every age, and state, and clime ; 
Eenown'd, dishonour'd, or forgot, 

The place that knew them, knows them not. 

3 Where are the living ? on the ground, 
Where prayer is heard, and merc}^ found ; 
Where, in the period of a span. 

The mortal makes the immortal man. 

4 Who are the living ? They whose breath 
Draws every moment nigh to death ; 

Of bhss or woe the eternal heirs ; 
what an awful choice is theirs ! 

5 Then timely warn'd, may we begin 
To follow Christ, and flee from sin ; 
Daily grow up in Him our Head, 
Lord of the living and the dead. 



HYMN CCXXVII. 

Preparation for Heaven. 

1 Heaven is a place of rest from, sin ; 
But all who hope to enter there, 
10* 



226 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

Must here that holy course begin, 

Which shall their souls for rest prepare. 

2 Clean hearts, God ! in us create, 

Right spirits, Lord, in us renew ; 
Commence we now that higher state, 
Now do Thy will as angels do. 

3 A life in heaven ! — what is this ? 

The sum of all that faith believed ; 
Fulness of joy, and depths of bliss, 
Unseen, unfathom'd, unconceived. 

4 While thrones, dominions, princedoms, 

powers, 
And saints made perfect, triumph thus, 
A goodly heritage is ours. 

There is a heaven on earth for us. 

5 The Church of Christ, the School of grace^ 

The Spirit teaching l3y the word ; 
In those our Saviour's steps we trace. 
By this His living voice is heard. 

6 Firm in His footsteps may we tread. 

Learn every lesson of his love ; 
And be from grace to glory led. 

From heaven below to heaven above. 



HYMN CCXXVIII. 

Heaven on Earth. 

While through this changing world we roam, 

From infancy to age. 
Heaven is the Christian pilgrim's home, 

His rest at every stage. 



OKIGINAL HYMNS. 231 

4 Then shall the King on either side, 

As sheep from goats, the throng divide. 
And those to bliss, and these to woe, 
Rejoicing or lamenting go. 

5 How small to that assembly this ! 
Yet heirs like them of woe or bliss : 
Were the last trumpet now to sound, 
On whether hand should we be found ? 

6 " Guilty" we plead, Judge of all ! 
Gruilty into Thine hands we fall ; 
The friend of sinners still art Thou ; 
Save or we perish, save us now ! 



HYMN GCXXXIV. 

At Home in Heaxien. — 1 Thess. iv. 17. 
I. 

1 " For ever with the Lord ! " 

Amen ; so let it be ; 
Life from the dead is in that word, 
'Tis immortality. 

2 Here in the body pent. 

Absent from Him I roam, 
Yet nightly pitch my moving tent 
A day's march nearer home. 

3 My Father's house on high, 

Home of my soul, how near. 



232 OKIGINAL HYMNS. 

At times, to faith's foreseeing eye 
Thy golden gates appear I 

4 Ah ! then my spirit faints 

To reach the land I love. 
The briglit inheritance of saints, 
Jerusalem above. 

5 Yet clouds will intervene, 

And all my prospect flies. 
Like Noah's dove, I flit between 
Kough seas and stormy skies. 

6 Anon the clouds depart. 

The winds and waters cease, 
While sweetly o'er my gladden'd heart, 
Expands the bow of peace. 

7 Beneath its glowing arch, 

Along the hallow'd ground, 
I see cherubic armies march, 
A camp of fire around. 

8 I hear at morn and even. 

At noon and midnight hour. 
The choral harmonies of heaven, 
Earth's Babel-tongues o'erpower. 

9 Then, then I feel that He, 

(Kemember'd or forgot,) 
The Lord, is never far from me, 
Though I perceive Him not. 



OBIGINAL HYMNS. 233 



IT. 

.n] 
Hidden alike from view. 



10 In darkness as in light, 



7 

I sleep, I wake, as in His sight, 
Who looks all nature throuo;h. 



'O' 



11 All that I am, have been, 

All that I yet may be. 
He sees at once, as He hath seen, 
And shall for ever see. 

12 How can I meet His eyes ? 

Mine on the cross I cast. 
And own my life a Saviour's j)rize, 
Mercy from first to last. 

13 " For ever with the Lord ! " 

— Father, if 'tis Thy will, 
The promise of that faitliful word, 
Even here to me fulfil. 

14 Be thou at my right hand, 

Then can I never fail ; 
Uphold Thou me, and I shall stand, 
Fight, and I must prevail. 

15 So when my latest breath 

Shall rend the veil in twain, 
By death I shall escape from death, 
And life eternal gain. 



234 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 



III. 

16 Knowing as I am known, 

How^ shall I love that word, 
And oft repeat before the Throne, 
" For ever with the Lord ! " 

17 Then, though the soul enjoy 

Communion high and sweet, 
While worms this body must destroy, 
Both shall in glory meet. 

18 The trump of final doom 

Will speak the selfsame word, 
And Heaven's voice thunder through the 
tomb, 
" For ever with the Lord ! " 

19 The tomb shall echo deep 

That death-awakening sound ; 
The saints shall hear it in their sleep. 
And answer from the ground. 

20 Then, upward as they fly. 

That resurrection-word, 
Shall be their shout of victory, 
" For ever with the Lord ! " 

21 That resurrection-word. 

That shout of victory, 
Once more, — ^^For ever luith the Lord!'* 
Amen : so let it be ! 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 235 

HYMN CCXXXV. 

The Security of Saints amidst tlie Destruction of Sinners. 

1 When the overwhelming waters 

Once a world of sinners drow^n'd, 
Eight of Adam's sons and daughters, 

In the Ark salvation found f 
Gathered to the Church, may we 
Thus from wrath and peril flee. 

2 When the fire from God descended 

On the cities of the plain, 
Three alone, by Heaven befriended. 

Refuge did in Zoar gain : 
By our pastors led, may we 
Thus escape to Calvary. 

3 When the midnight angel numbered 

Egypt's first-born with the dead, 
Israel's tribes, unsmitten slumber'd, 

Where the paschal lamb had bled : 
By the blood of sjjrinkling, w^e 
Thus from vengeance are made free. 

4 When, while quick and dead assemble. 

Flames this universe destroy, 
Though the wicked quake and tremble. 

Saints shall lift their heads with joy : 
Eaised to life, like them, may w^e 
With the Lord for ever be. 



236 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCXXXYI. 

The Day after Judgment. 

1 The days and years of time are fled, 

Sun, moon, and stars have shone then' last ; 
The earth and sea gave up their dead, 

Then vanished at the archangel's blast : 
All secret things have been reveal'd, 
Judgment is pass'd, the sentence seal'd, 
And man to all eternity 
What he is noio henceforth must be. 

2 From Adam to his youngest heir, 

Not one escaped the muster-roll. 
Each, as if he alone were there, 

Stood up, and won or lost his soul ; 
These from the Judge's presence go 
Down into everlasting woe ; 
Vengeance hath barr'd the gates of hell, 
The scenes within no tongue can tell. 

3 But lo ! far oif the righteous pass 

To glory from the King's right hand ; 
• In silence, on the sea of glass. 

Heaven's numbers without number stand, 
While He who bore the cross lays down 
His priestly robe and victor crown ; 
The mediatorial reign complete. 
All things are put beneath His feet. 

4 Then every eye in Him shall see, 

(While thrones and powers before Him fall,) 
The fulness of the Deity, 

Where God Himself is all in all : 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 237 

how eternity will ring 
With the first note the ransom'd sing ! 
While in that strain all voices blend. 
Which once begun shall never end. 
In that unutterable song, 

Shall I employ immortal breath ? 
Or, with the wicked borne along, 

For ever die " the second death ? " 
Jesus, my life, my light Thou art ; 
Thy word is in my mouth, my heart ; 
Lord, I believe, — my spirit save 
From sinking lower than the o;rave. 



HYMN CCXXXVII. 

TTie Song of the Hundred and forty and four thousand, 

1 What are these in bright array. 

This innumerable throng. 
Round the altar night and day. 

Hymning one triumphant song : 
" Worthy is the Lamb once slain, 

Blessing, honour, glory, power, 
Wisdom, riches, to obtain, 

New dominion every hoar," 
^ These through fiery trials trod ; 

These from great affliction came ; 
Now before the throne of God, 

Seal'd with His almighty name : 
Clad in raiment pure and white, 

Victor-palms in every hand. 
Through their dear Redeemer's might, 

More than conquerors they stand. 



238 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

3 Hunger, thirst, disease unknown, 

On immortal fruits they feed ; 
Them, the Lamb amidst the throne, 

Shall to living fountains lead ; 
Joy and gladness banish sighs, 

Perfect love dispels all fear, 
And for ever from their eyes, . 

God shall wipe away the tear. 



HYMN CCXXXVIII. 

For ever icith the Lord. 

1 Eternity ! Eternity ! 

That boundless, soundless, tideless, sea, 
Of mysteries the mystery, 
What is Eternity to me ? 

2 Infinite bliss or misery. 

Woe past, woe jiresent, woe to be ; 
The fulness of felicity ; 
These are Eternity to me. 

3 Two voices from Eternity ! 

A voice from heaven comes down to me, 
A voice from hell breaks dolefully, 
^'Life, Death, Man ! are offered thee." 

4 The abyss is moved ; even Wrath cries " Flee !" 
The height expands, and Love cries ^' See 
What God hath here prepared for thee ; 
Choose thou thine own Eternity ! " 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 239 

HYMN CCXXXIX. 

Good Tidings of Oreat Joy to all People. 

1 Angels from the realms of glory, 

Wing yom- flight o'er all the earth, 
Ye who sang creation's story, 

Now proclaim Messiah's birth ; 
Come and worship, 
Worship Christ the new-born King. 

2 Shepherds, in the field abiding, 

Watching o'er your flocks by night, 
God with man is now residing. 

Yonder shines the infant-light ; • 
Come and worship, 
Worship Christ the new-born King. 

3 Sages, leave your contemplations, 

Brighter visions beam afar. 
Seek the great Desire of Nations ; 

Ye have seen his natal star ; 
Come and worship. 
Worship Christ the new-born King. 

4 Saints, before the altar bending. 

Watching long in hope and fear. 
Suddenly the Lord descending 

In His temple shall appear ; 
Come and worship. 
Worship Christ the new-born King. 

5 Sinners, wrung with true repentance, 

Doom'd for guilt to endless pains, 



240 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

Justice now revokes the sentence, 

Mercy calls you — break your chains ; 
Come and worship. 
Worship Christ the new-born King. 



HYMN CCXL. 

Inmtation to the Jews to acknowledge Christ. 

1 Children of Zion, know your King, 

Your own Messiah hail : 
Hosanna in His temple sing. 
For He hath rent the veil. 

2 Himself the sacrifice for sin, 

As your High-Priest He died ; 
With His own blood, He enter'd in, — 
Behold Him crucified ! 

3 Behold Him on the Mercy-seat, 

High in the holiest place ; 
Now cast yourselves before His feet, 
Then rise to see His face. 

4 That face with reconciling beams 

Shines forth upon you all ; 
No longer mourn by Babel's streams, 
He calls you, — hear His caU. 

5 So shall your hearts within you burn ; 

While guided by His voice, 
With songs to Zion you return, 
And in your GrOD rejoice. 



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6 At His great name, bow every knee ; 
Let every tongue confess 
Christ, whom your fathers slew, is HE, 
The Lord your Eighteousness. 



HYMN CCXLL 

The Restoration of Israel. 

1 Daughter of Zion, from the dust, 

Exalt thy fallen head ; 
Again in thy Kedeemer trust, 
He calls thee from the dead. 

2 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, 

Thy beautiful array ; 
The day of freedom dawns at length. 
The Lord's appointed day. 

3 Kebuild thy walls, thy bounds enlarge, 

And send thy heralds forth ; 
Say to the South, — ^^ Give up thy charge, 
And keep not back, North ! " 

4 They come, they come ; — thine exiled bands. 

Where'er they rest or roam, 
Have heard thy voice in distant lands. 
And hasten to their home. 

5 Thus, though the universe shall burn. 

And God his works destroy. 
With songs the ransom'd shall return, 
And everlasting joy. 
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HYMN CCXLII. 

The Christians' Call to the Gypsies. — Isa. xviii. 7. 

Christians. 
Strangers, whence came ye to the West ; 

Are ye the offspring of the sun, 
That from his rising to his rest. 

Through every chme he shines on, run ? 
So bright of eye, so dark of hue. 
Surely your sire hath look'd on you. 

Gypsies. 
Of higher Kneage than the sun, 

(But where our birthplace none can show,) 
His track in heaven, on earth we run, 

From where the waves of Ganges flow, 
Or Nile's mysterious waters well 
From Afric's heart, unsearchable. 

Strangers and pilgrims everywhere. 
In exile through the world we roam, 

Yet catch no breath of natal air, 

Yet find no place that once was home ; 

We meet no form to ours akin, 

No door to welcome us within. 

Our fathers came not on the wing. 
Like swallows in their annual round, 

Nor did their field-born households spring 
Like flowers in April, from the ground ; 

Although, like flowers, or swallows led, 

They might have risen from the dead : — 



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5 So simultaneously appeared 

Through many a land, a race, that sought 
Not gold or conquest, — Hoped nor fear'd, 

Weapon nor merchandise "they brought ; 
But, where sweet spots of way-side green 
Gave sun and shade, their tents were seen. 

6 Ages since then are worn away, 

And we, instinctively estranged. 
From those with whom we dwell, — as they 

That went before, remain unchanged ; 
Subtle though sinful, wild yet tame, 
Looks, language, manners, minds, the same. 

7 But must we so be born and die ? 

Must all our generations pass 
Like clouds that vanish through the sky ? 

And single lives, like blades of grass 
At day-break green, with dew-drops fed, 
Ere noon be shorn, by night-fall dead ? 

Christians. 

8 Strangers, we hail you to the west, 

Nameless no more, nor hopeless roam. 
Here seek your hope, here find your rest. 

Our country yours, and yours our home ; 
And this our bond of union be. 
Ye are our brethren, yours are we. 

9 Not Nile nor Ganges gave you birth. 

Your parentage and ours is one ; 
Coeval with the heavens and earth, 
The God who spake and it was done ; 



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In His great name on you we call ; 
He is the Father of us all. 

10 Leave then the wild, the lane, the wood, 
Live not like brutes that perish thus ; 

come, and we will do you good, 
For God hath sjjoken good to us : 

Come, we will teach you all His ways ; 

Come, and let both show forth His praise. 



Gypsies. 

11 We come, we come, the world forsake ; "^ 

With heart, soul, mind, and all their 
powers, 
Your country and your home we take, 

Your people and your God for ours ; 
Kesolved with you to live and die. 
Dwell where you dwell, lie where you lie. 

Christians and Gypsies. 

12 Then, when our bodies, dust to dust. 

And side by side their Sabbath keep, 
May our free souls among the just 

Watch for that breaking up from sleep, 
When once again we all shall be. 
Joint heirs of immortality. 



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HYMN CCXLIII. 

For a Deaf Man. 

1 To me, though neither voice nor sound, 

From earth or air may come, 
Deaf to the world that brawls around, 
The world to me is dumb. 

2 Yet may the quick and conscious eye 

Assist the slow dull ear ; 
Sight can the signs of thought supply, 
And with a look I hear. 

3 'The song of birds, the water's fall, 

Sweet tones and grating jars, 
Hail, tempest, wind, and thunder, — all 
Are silent as the stars : — 

4 The stars that on their tranquil way. 

In language without speech. 
The glory of the Lord display, 
And to all nations preach. 

5 Now, though one outward sense be seaFd, 

The kind remaining four. 
To teach me needful knowledge, yield 
Their earnest aid the more. 

6 Yet hath mine heart, an inward ear, 

Through which its powers rejoice ; 
Speak, Lord ; and let me love to hear 
Thy Spirit's still small voice. 



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7 So when the Archangel from the ground 
Shall summon great and small, 
The ear now deaf shall hear that sound, 
And answer to the call. 



HYMN CCXLIV. 

For Mariners. 

Now weigh the anchor, hoist the sail. 
Launch out upon the pathless peep, 

Kesulved, however veers the gale. 
The destined port in mind to keep ; 

Through all the dangers of the way, 

Deliver us, good Lord, we pray. 

When tempests mingle sea and sky. 
And winds like lions rage and rend. 

Ships o'er the mountain-waters fly, 
Or down unfathom'd depths descend. 

Though skill avail not, strength decay. 

Deliver us, good Lord, we pray. 

If lightnings from embattled clouds 
Strike, or a spark in secret nurst. 

From stem to stern, o'er masts and shrouds, 
Like doomsday's conflagration burst. 

Amid the fire Thy power display. 

Deliver us, good Lord, we pray. 

Through yielding planks, should ocean urge 
Eucle entrance, flooding all below. 

Speak, ere we founder in the surge — 
" Thus far, nor farther shall ye go ; 



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Here, ye proud waves, your fury stay : " 
Deliver us, good Lord, we pray. 

With cordage snapt, and canvas riven, 
Throuo-li straits thick-strown with rock and 
shoal, ' 

Along some gulph-stream darkly driven. 
Fast wedged 'midst icebergs at the pole, 

Or on low breakers cast away. 

Deliver us, good Lord, we pray. 

Save, or we perish ; — calms or storms, 
By day, by night, at home, afar. 

Death walks the waves in all his forms. 
And shoots his darts from every star ; 

Want, pain, and woe man's path waylay, 

Deliver us, good Lord, we i^ray. 



HYMN CCXLY. 

Invocation to Peace. — ^Phil. iv. 7. 

1 Peace that passeth understanding. 
Peace to calm the bosom's strife. 

Peace the winds and waves commanding, 
On this stormy sea of life ; 

Peace the wounded spirit healing. 

Peace the love of Christ revealing ; 

Peace, God ! Thy peace impart ; 

Thou of peace the author art. 



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2 Peace to keep our minds for ever 

In Thy faith, Thy fear, Thy way ; 
Peace to keep our hearts, that never 

Thought, desire, nor feeling stray ! 
Peace to soothe in every trial, 
Peace to soften self-denial, 
Peace our daily cross to take. 
Grant us, for our Saviour's sake. 

3 War with all the powers of evil, 

We may every moment wage. 
Yet of world, and flesh, and devil. 

Scorn the friendship, falsehood, rage ; 
Though by foes and perils haunted. 
We shall pass unharm'd, undaunted. 
Thy whole armour, while we wear, 
Sword, shield, breast-plate, helm, — all prayer. 



HYMN CCXLYI. 

For a Birthday. 

1 Is this the day that gave me birth ? 

Returning year by year. 
Still as a stranger on the earth. 
It finds and leaves me here. 

2 But oh ! the day, the day draws nigh, 

When I must hence depart, 
Leave all things pleasant to the eye, 
Or precious to the heart. 



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3 Where shall my naked spirit then, 

Flee at my latest breath ? 
Alas ! I must be born again, 
Or die a deadlier death. 

4 While everlasting ages roll 

Without a change away, 
My rausom'd or my ruin'd soul, 
Shall bless or curse this day. 

5 Lord Jesus, who Thyself was born 

To live and die for me. 
Thy doctrine may my life adorn, 
Death take me home to Thee. 



HYMN CCXLYII. 

For a Friencfs Birthday. 

Brother and friend, with heart and voice, 
We greet thee on this festal morn ; 

None but the Christian can rejoice 
In deed and truth, that he was born. 

Since to this evil world you came. 

Your heavenly birth-right have you 
prized ? 

In Father, Son, and Spirit's name. 

Were you not from that world baptized ? 

Then dead to sin, alive to God, 
Whate'er you feel, or seek, or do. 

Along the path our Saviour trod, 
Meekly his blessed steps pursue. 
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250 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

4 So shall the Father cause his face 

To shine on you while life endures, 
So be the Son's redeeming grace, 

The Holy Ghost's communion, yours. 

5 So may we all with heart and voice 

Sing at the resurrection morn, 
And through eternity rejoice, 

At God's right hand, that we were born. 



HYMN CCXLYIII. 

For the renewal of Anniversary Blessings. 

1 Thou, in whom we live and move 

And have our being ! meet us here ; 
Let us Thy tender mercy prove. 

As Thou art wont, from year to year. 

2 For year by year, when tlu'ongs on throngs, 

Kejoicing to Thy courts repair. 
To offer praise in choral songs. 

And pour their souls in fervent prayer : — 

3 To prayers and songs in sovereign grace, 

A willing ear Thou dost incline, 
And cause the glory of Thy face 
In Christ, on all and each to shine. 

4 To each and all, this day, anew. 

The tokens of Thy love impart. 
And let Thy blessing fall like dew, 
— Fall on good ground in every heart. 



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5 In every heart Thy word be sown, 

Spring up, and thrive through heat and 
cold, 
Until it shake like Lebanon, 

With heavenly fruit an hundred fold : — 

6 Fruit ripening in our earthly clime, 

Till all the plants thus train'd by Thee, 
Flourish as trees of life through time, 
Then trees of immortality. 



HXMN CCXLIX. 

On a special Christian Festival Occasion. 

1 The sun clear-shining after showers 

May his own image view. 
Reflected from a thousand flowers 
In countless drops of dew. 

2 If then a freshening breeze up-springs. 

Above, around, beneath, 
Like heavenward incense on its wings, 
Their mingled odours breathe. 

3 So ! where the Sun of righteousness 

His cheering radiance sheds. 
Where gracious rains have fall'n to bless 
The Church's garden-beds. 

4 Christ's ransom'd tribes before him stand 

With His own glory bright ; 
Plants of his heavenly Father's hand, 
And children of the lidit. 



252 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

5 Then should the spirit from above 

A gale of Eden's blow, 
As from a Paradise of love, 
How sweet their sj^ices flow ! 

6 To-day, while thousands meet as one 

In many a holy place, 
May He who is of all the Sun, 
In each his image trace. 



HYMN COL. 

For Christmas. 

1 Sleep, weary world, and take thy rest, 

Thy countless eye-lids close ; 
Shut all thy cares within thy breast. 
For once in peace repose. 

2 Wake, slumbering world ; a midnight cry 

Comes with Almighty breath ; 
Wake ; thy redemption draweth nigh. 
Rise from the dust of death. 

3 Yon star, those angels, shepherds, kings, 

A birth from heaven proclaim ; 
The Son of God salvation brings, 
Emanuel is His name. 

4 G-ather thy children from afar, 

Of climes and tongues unknown ; 
Show them the stable and the star, 
Christ's manger and his throne. 



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5 There, with the Angels, loud and sweet, 

All hearts, all voices blend ; 
There, with the shepherds, at his feet, 
All knees, all nations bend. 

6 There, with the wise men from the East, 

Sinners their offerings bring ; 
Each at this altar be a priest, 
And every priest a king. 

7 For He shall wash them in His blood. 

Shall with His robes array. 
And make them kings and priests to God : 
Lord Jesus, speed the day. 



HYMN COLL 

For a Religious Anniversary. 

1 Once more, to pay our annual vows, 

We to Thy tem]3le, Lord, repair ; 
While every knee before Thee bows. 

And every lip is moved in prayer. 
Send down Thy Spirit from above, 
Thy Holy Spirit, &od of love. 

2 In pentecostal power and grace. 

May He baptize us now with fire, 
With His sweet presence fill the place. 

With faith and hope our hearts inspire, 
Faith, seeing what no eye can see, 
Hope, breathing immortality. 



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3 Through Him to us Thy Son reveal, 

In every form that once he wore, 
When, with His blood, our peace to seal. 

Our sins He in His body bore. 
For all a full atonement made, 
For each a priceless ransom paid. 

4 The helpless child in Bethlehem born. 

Heaven's pilgrim through earth's wilder- 
ness. 
The man of sorrows and of scorn. 

Him as our Lord we would confess. 
And nothing know, or seek beside 
Christ Jesus, and Him crucified. 

6 So may we in His likeness grow, 
God in the flesh made manifest — 
Through whom Thine Image, lost below, 

On souls new-born is reimpress'd ; 
No longer kindred to the clod. 
Though sons of Adam, sons of God. 



HYMN CCLII. 

An Hundred Years ago. 
Hymn for the Centenary of Wesleyan Methodism. 

1 One song of praise, one voice of prayer, 
Around, above, below ; 
Ye winds and waves the burthen bear, 
" An hundred years ago ! " 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 255 

2 " An hundred years ago ! " What then ? 

There rose, the world to bless, 
A little band of faithful men, 
A cloud of witnesses : 

3 It look'd but like a human hand ; 

Few welcomed, and none fear'd. 
Yet, as it open'd o'er the land. 
The hand of God appear'd. 

4 The Lord made bare His holy arm. 

In sight of earth and hell ; 
Fiends fled before it with alarm. 
And alien-armies fell. 

5 God gave the word, and great hath been 

The preachers' comj^any ; 
What wonders have our fathers seen ! 
What signs their children see ! 

6 One song of praise for mercies past. 

Through all our courts resound ; 
One voice of prayer, that to the last, 
Grace may yet more abound. 

7 All hail, " An hundred years ago ! " 

And when our lips are dumb. 
Be millions heard rejoicing so. 
An hundred years to come. 



256 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCLIII. 

Thij Kingdom come. 

Written in the metre and to suit tlie tune of the hymn 
said to have been composed and set to music by Luther, 
and sung by him and his friends, as the}' entered the city 
of Worms, to appear before the Diet there ; when, though 
he had reason to fear treachery and cruelty equal to that 
experienced by his martyred predecessor, John Huss, at the 
Council of Constance, he declared, while liis advisers would 
have dissuaded him fi*om going thither, that "if there were 
as man}^ devils tliere as there were tiles on the houses, he 
would go and face them." 

1 Send out Thy light and truth, GrOD ! 

With sound of trumpet from above ; 
Break not the nations with Thy rod, 
But draw them as with cords of love ; 
Justice and mercy meet ; 

The work is well begun, 
Through every clime their feet. 

Who bring glad tidings, run ; 
In earth, as heaven. Thy will be done. 

2 Before Thee every idol fall, 

Kend the false prophet's veil of lies ; 
The fulness of the Gentiles call. 
Be Israel saved, let Jacob rise : 
Thy Kingdom come indeed, 

Thy church with union bless, 
All scripture be her creed. 

And every tongue confess 
One Lord, — the Lord our Righteousness. 



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Now for the travail of His soul. 



Messiah's peaceful reign advance ; 
From sea to sea, from pole to pole, 
He claims His pledged inheritance : 
Thou most mighty ! gird 

Thy sword upon Thy thigh, — 
That two-edged sword, — Thy word, 

By which Thy foes shall die, 
Then be new-born beneath Thine eye. 

4 So perish all Thine enemies. 
Their enmity alone be slain ; 
Them, in the arms of mercy seize. 

Breathe, and their souls shall come again 
So may Thy friends at lengthy 

Oft smitten, oft laid low, 
Forth, like the s.un in strength. 

Conquering, to conquer go, 
Till to Thy throne all nations flow. 



HYMN CCLIV. 

Fareioell to a 



Home, kindred, friends, and country, these 
Are things with which we never part ; 

From clime to clime, o'er land and seas. 
We bear them with us in our heart : 

And yet 'tis hard to feel resign'd. 

When these, all these, are left behind. 



258 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

2 But when the pilgrim's staff we take, 

And follow Christ from shore to shore, 
Gladly for Him we all forsake, 

Press on, and only look before : 
Though humbled Nature mourns her loss, 
The spirit glories in the Cross. 

3 It is no sin, like man, to weep, 

Even Jesus wept o'er Lazarus, dead ; 
Or yearn for home beyond the deep. 

He had not where to lay His head : 
The patriot's tears will He condemn. 
Who wept o'er lost Jerusalem ? 

4 Take up your cross, and say " Farewell ! " 

Gro forth without the camp to Him, 
Who left heaven's throne with men to dwell. 

Who died His murderers to redeem : 
Oh ! tell His name in every ear ; 
Doubt not, — the dead themselves will hear ; 

5 Hear, and come forth to life anew. 

Then, \diile the Gentile courts they fill, 
Shall not your Saviour's words stand true ? 

Home, kindred, friends, and country still, 
In earth's last desert you shall find. 
Yet lose not those you left behind. 



HYMN CCLV. 

The Field of the World. 

1 Sow in the morn thy seed. 

At eve hold not thine hand ; 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 259 

To doubt and fear, give thou no heed, 
Broad-cast it o'er the land. 

2 Beside all waters sow, 

The highway furrows stock. 
Drop it where thorns and thistles grow. 
Scatter it on the rock. 

3 The good, the fruitful ground. 

Exj^ect not here nor there, 
O'er hill and dale, by plots 'tis found ; 
Go forth, then, every where. 

4 Thou know'st not which may thrive 

The late or early sown ; 
Grace keeps the precious germs alive. 
When and wherever strown. 

5 And duly shall appear. 

In verdure, beauty, strength. 
The tender blade, the stalk, the ear. 
And the full corn at length. 

6 Thou canst not toil in vain ; 

Cold, heat, and moist, and dry, 
Shall foster and mature the grain 
For garners in the sky. 

7 Thence, when the glorious end, 

The day of God is come. 
The angel-reapers shall descend. 
And heaven cry '' Harvest home ! " 



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HYMN CCLVI. 

The Gathering of the Gentiles. 

1 The heathen perish ; — day by day, 
Thousands on thousands pass away ! 
O Christians ! to their rescue fly. 
Preach Jesus to them ere they die. 

2 Wealth, labour, talents, freely give, 
Yea, life itself, that they may live ; 
What hath your Saviour done for You .^ 
And what for Him will ye not do ? 

3 Thou Spirit of the Lord, go forth, 
Call in the south, wake up the north ; 
Of every clime, from sun to sun. 
Gather God's children into one. 



HYMN CCLVIL 

The Spirit accomimnying the Word of God. 

Spirit of the living God ! 

In all Thy plenitude of grace. 
Where'er the foot of man hath trod. 

Descend on our apostate race. 

Give tongues of fire and hearts of love. 
To preach the reconciling word ; 

Give power and unction from above, 
Whene'er the joyful sound is heard. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 261 

Be darkness, at Thy coming, light, 
Confusion, order in Thy path ; 

Souls without strength inspire with might, 
Bid mercy triumph over wrath. 

Spirit of the Lord ! prepare 

All the round earth her God to meet ; 

Breathe Thou ahroad like morning air, 
Till hearts of stone begin to beat. 

Baptize the nations ; far and nigh. 
The triumphs of the Cross record ; 

The name of Jesus glorify. 

Till every kindred call him Lord. 

God from eternity hath wilFd, 
All flesh shall His salvation see ; 

So be the Father's love fulfill'd, 

The Saviour's sufferings crown 'd through 
Thee. 

HYMN CCLVIIL 

For a Juvenile Missionary Meeting. 

PART I. 

A GRAIN of corn an infant's hand 
May plaat upon an inch of land. 
Whence twenty stalks may spring, and yield 
Enough to stock a little field. 

The harvest of that field might then 

Be multiplied to ten times ten. 

Which sown thrice more, would furnish bread 

Wherewith an army might be fed. 



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PART II. 

3 A penny is a little thing 

Which even the poor man's child may fling 

Into the treasury of heaven. 

And make it worth as much as seven. 

4 As seven ! nay, worth its weight in gold, 
And that increased a million fold ; 

For lo ! a penny tract, if well 
Applied, may save a soul from hell. 

5 That soul can scarce be saved alone, — 
It must, it will, its bliss make known ; 
" Come," it will cry, " and you shall see 
What great things Gtod hath done for me." 

6 Hundreds that joyful sound may hear ; 
Hear with the heart as well as ear ; 
And these to thousands more proclaim, 
Salvation in the '' Only Name." 

7 That " Only Name," above, below, " 
Let Jews, and Turks, and Pagans know ; 
Till every tongue and tribe shall call 

On " Jesus Christ " as Lord of all ! 

PART III. 

8 The day of small things God will not 
Despise, the least are unforgot ; 

An orphan's offering, widow's mite, 
Are precious in their Maker's sight. 

9 Children ! who now hosannas raise. 

Out of whose mouths He perfects praise, 



OEIGINAL HYMNS. 263 

Spare from the little you possess, 
What God will own, accept and bless. 

10 Till through the east, the south, the west, 
Gifts from the north will be so blest. 
That, in the end, earth's countless throngs 
Shall sing with us this song of songs : — 

11 " Worthy the Lamb for sinners slain. 
Power, riclies, honour to obtain, 

Who loved and washed us in His blood. 
And made us kings and [)riests to God." 



HYMN CCLIX. 
Garden ilioiiglits. 

For a Missionary Meeting in a Garden. 

1 In a garden, — man was placed, 

Meet abode for innocence. 
With his Maker's image graced ; 

Sin crept in, and drove him thence, 
Through the world, a wretch undone, 
Seeking rest, and finding none. 

2 In a garden, — on that night. 

When our Saviour was betray'd. 
With what world-redeeming might. 

In His agony He pray'd ! 
Till He drank the vengeance up, 
And with mercy fill'd the cup. 

3 In a garden, — on the Cross, 

When the spear His heart had riven. 



264 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

And for earth's primeval loss, 

Heaven's best ransom had been given ; 
Jesus rested from his woes, 
Jesus from the dead arose. 

4 Here, not Eden's bowers are found. 

Nor forlorn Gethsemane, 
Nor that calm sepulchral ground, 

At the foot of Calvary ; 
Yet this scene may well recall 
Sweet remembrances of all. 

5 Emblem of the Church below ! 

Where the Spirit and the Word, 
Fall like dews, like breezes blow, 

And the Lord God's voice is heard, 
Walking in the cool of day, 
While the world is far away. 

6 Emblem of the Church above ! 

Where, as in their native clime, 
'Midst the garden of his love, 

Kescued from the rage of time, 
Saints, as trees of life shall stand, 
Planted by His own right hand. 

7 Kound the fair enclosure here, 

Flames no cherub's threatening sword ; 
Ye, who enter, feel no fear : 

Koof 'd by heaven, with verdure floor'd, 
Breathing balm from blossoms gay, 
This is Paradise to-day. 

8 Yet one moment meditate 

On our parents' banishment. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 265 

When from Eden's closing gate, 

Hand in hand, they weeping went, 
Spikenard groves no more to dress. 
But a thorn-set wilderness. 

9 Then, remember Him who laid 

Uncreated splendour by, 

Lower than the angels made. 

Fallen man to glorify ; 
And from death beyond the grave, 
Unto life immortal save. 

10 Think of Him, — your souls He sought, 

Wandering, never to return ; 
Hath He found you .? — At the thought, 

Your glad hearts within you burn : 
Then your love, like His, extend ; 
Be like Him, the sinner's friend. 

11 Ye, who smile in rosy youth, 

Grlow with manhood, fade through years, 
Send the life, the light, the truth. 

To dead hearts, blind eyes, deaf ears ; 
And your very pleasures make 
Charities for Jesus' sake. 

12 So shall gospel-glory run. 

Round the globe to every clime. 
Brighter than the circling sun ; 

Hastening that millennial time. 
When the earth shall be restored. 
As the garden of the Lord. 
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HYMN CCLX. 

The success of the Gospel in our clays. 

1 " Let there be light : " thus spake the Word ; 

The Word was God ; " and there was 
Hght : " 
Still the creative voice is heard ; 
A day is born from every night. 

2 And every night shall turn to day, 

While months, and years, and ages roll ; 
But we have seen a brighter ray 
Dawn on the chaos of the soul. 

3 Nor we alone ; its wakening smiles 

Have broke the gloom of pagan sleep : 
The Word hath reach'd the utmost isles, 
God's Spirit moves upon the deep. 

4 Already from the dust of death, 

Man in his Maker's image stands ; . 
Once more inhales immortal breath, 

And stretches forth to heaven his hands, 

5 From day to day, before our eyes. 

Glows and extends the work begun ; 
When shall the new creation rise 
On every land beneath the sun ? 

6 When, in the Sabbath of His love, 

Shall God amidst his labours rest ; 
And, bending from His throne above, 
Again pronounce His creatures bless'd ? 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 267 

HYMN CCLXI. 

On the Jiibilee of the London Missionary Society. 

1 Arise and sliine, your light is come, 

Fair islands of the West ! 
Awake and sing, once deaf and dumb. 
Now islands of the blest. 

2 Shine, for the glory of the Lord 

Your coral-reefs surrounds : 
Sing, for the trumpet of His word 
O'er all your ocean sounds. 

3 Poor Africa ! through thy waste sands. 

Where Calvary's fountain flows. 
Deserts become Immanuel's lands, 
And blossom like the rose. 

4 India, beneath the chariot wheels 

Of Juggernaut overthrown. 
Thy heart a quickening Spirit feels, 
A pulse beats through the stone. 

5 China ! behold thy quaking wall : 

Foredoomed by Heaven's decree, 

A hand is writing on it — "^ Fall ! " 

A voice goes forth — " Be free ! " 

6 Ye Pagan tribes ! of every race, 

Clime, country, language, hue, 
Believe, obey, be saved by grace, 
The Grospel speaks to you. 

7 Father of lights ! Thy will be done 

Here, as by saints above ; 



268 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

Give earth's whole empire to Thy Son, 
For He must reign in love : — 

8 Keign, till beneath His feet, all foes ; 
Yanqiiish'd for ever he ; 
And the last Judgment's sentence close 
The book of prophecy. 



HYMN CCLXII. 

For a Congregation of Negroes. 

1 Our Master, Jesus, reign'd above, 

The Lord of all was He ; 
And yet He chose to set His love, 

wondrous love ! on me. 

2 Our Master, Jesus, — bless His name ! 

1 love to hear the sound, — 
When I was lost to seek me came. 

And, thank God ! He found. 

3 Our Master, Jesus, from His birth 

My sins and sorrows bore ; 
And while He hved, like me, on earth, 
A servant's form He wore. 

4 Our Master, Jesus, went to preach 

The Gospel every where. 
And by His own example teach 
How we the Cross should bear. 

5 Our Master, Jesus, how kind 

Was all He did and said ! 
He heal'd the sick, the lame, the blind, 
And raised to life the dead. 



ORIGINAL HYMXS. 269 

6 Our Master, Jesus, crucified 

By hands of wicked men, 
Prayd for His murderers ; — then He died ; 
He died, but rose again. 

7 Our Master, Jesus, suffer'd this, 

The world from hell to save, 
And bring to heaven's amazing bliss, 
The free man and the slave. 

8 Our Master, Jesus, takes delight 

In hearts made pure within ; 
Though we are black, our souls are white, 
When He forgives our sin. 

9 Our Master, Jesus, who didst give 

Thyself to die for me. 
Grant the poor negro grace to live, 
And grace to die to Thee. 



HYMN CCLXIII. 

The Tear of Jubilee. 

Fair shines the morning star ; 

The silver trumpets sound. 
Their notes re-echoing far, 

While dawns the day around : 
Joy to the slave ; the slave is free ; 
It is the year of Jubilee. 

Prisoners of hope, in gloom 

And silence left to die. 
With Christ's unfolding tomb, 

Your portals open fly ; 



270 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

Kise with your Lord ; — He sets you free ; 
It is the year of Jubilee. 

4 Ye, who have sold for naught 

The land your Fathers won, 
Behold, how God hath wrought 

Kedemption through His Son ; 
Your heritage again is free ; 
It is the year of Jubilee. 

!* Ye, who yourselves have sold 

For debts to Justice due, 
Kansoui'd, but not with gold, 

He gave Himself for you ! 
The blood of Christ hath made you free : 
It is the year of Jubilee. 

6 Captives of sin and shame. 

O'er earth and ocean, hear 
An angel's voice proclaim 

The Lord's accepted year : 
Let Jacob rise, be Israel free ; 
It is the year of Jubilee. 



HYMN CCLXIV. 

On the Decease of an eminent Christian 
in the West Indies. 

Oh ! " Yahant-for-the-Truth ! " 

Hail from Thy battle-field, 
A Christian warrior from thy youth, 

Who never knew to yield ; 
The conquering armour here lay down, 
For the white robe, the palm, the crown. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 271 

Where earth and hell combined 

God's Image to defame^ 
In darkness hold the immortal mind, 

In chains the mortal frame ; 
There didst thon choose thy stormy post, 
Strong in the faith, — thyself a host. 

l^ot without patient care, 

Sore suffering, day-long toil, 
And many a wrestling night of prayer. 

Didst thou divide the spoil ; 
Then ransom'd slaves were made to be 
Free from Man's yoke, — from Satan's free. 

Now rest upon that bed. 

Where once thy Captain lay, 
And sanctified it for the dead 

In Christ, till His great day ; 
When they, though worlds around them burn, 
With songs to Zion shall return. 

In that Jerusalem above. 

Where all the saints shall meet ; 

Loved with an everlasting love. 
Around their Saviour's feet ; 

Oh ! there with thine our souls be found 

In life's eternal bundle bound. 



272 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCLXV. 
China Evangelized. 
" The Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the hattle.^^- 
Isa. xiii. 4. 

PART I. 

1 Lift up your heads, ye gates of brass ! 

Ye bars of Iron ! yield ; 
And let the King of Glory pass, — 
The Cross is in the field. 

2 That banner, brighter than the star, 

That leads the train of night, 
Shines on their march and guides from far 
His servants to the fight. 

3 A holy war those servants wage ; 

— Mysteriously at strife, 
The powers of heaven and hell engage 
For more than death or life. 

4 Earth's rankest soil they see outspread ; 

So throng'd. it seems within, 
One city of the living dead. 
Dead while alive to sin. 

5 The forms of life are everywhere, 

The spirit nowhere found ; 
Like vapours kindling in the air, 
«■ Then sinking in the ground. 

6 No hope have these above the dust, 

. No being but a breath ; 

In vanity and lies they trust 

Their very life is death. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 273 



PART II. 

7 Ye armies of the living GrOD, 

His sacramental host ! 
Where hallowed footstep never trod, 
Take your appointed post. 

8 Follow the Cross, the ark of peace 

Accompany yom^ path, 
To slaves and rebels bring release 
From bondage and from wrath. 

9 A barley-cake o'erthrew the camp 

Of Midian, tent by tent, 
Ere morn the trumjoet and the lamp 
Through all in triumph went. 

10 Though China's sons like Midian's fill 

As grasshoppers the vale, 
The sword of God and Gideon still 
To conquer cannot fail. 

11 As Jericho before the blast 

Of sounding rams' horns fell. 
Sin's strongholds here shall be down cast, 
Down cast these gates of hell. 

12 Truth error's legions must o'erwhelm 

And China's thickest wall, 
(The wall of darkness round her realm,) 
At your loud summons fall. 

13 Though few and small and weak your bands, 

Strong in your Captain's strength, 
Go to the conquest of all lands. 
All must be His at length. 
12^- 



274 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

14 The closest seal'd between the poles 

Is open'cl to your toils ; 
Where thrice a hundred million souls 
Are offer' d you for spoils. 

15 Those spoils, at His victorious feet, 

You shall rejoice to lay. 
And lay yourselves, as trophies meet. 
In His great Judgment-day. 



PART III. 

16 No carnal weapons those ye bear. 

To lay the aliens low ; 
Then strike amain, and do not spare, 
There's life in every blow. 

17 Life ! — more than life on earth can be ; 

All in this conflict slain 
Die but to sin, — eternally 
The crown of life to gain. 

18 fear not, faint not, halt not now ; 

Quit you like men, be strong ; 
To Christ shall Buddhu's votaries bow 
And sing with you this song : 

19 " Uplifted are the gates of brass, 

The bars of iron yield ; 
Behold the King of Glory pass ; 
The Cross hath won the field." 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 2*75 



HYMN CCLXVI. 

All nations shall serve Him. — Ps. Ixxii. 11. 

Fall clown ye nations, and adore 

Jehovah on His mercy-seat, 
Like prostrate seas on every shore, 

That cast their billows at your feet. 

Let hallelujahs to the skies. 

With ocean's everlasting sound, 

(The voice of many waters) rise, 

Day without night, as time goes round. 

Come from the east, — with gifts, ye kings, 
Gold, frankincense, and myrrh ; 

Where'er the morning spreads her wings. 
Let man to God his vows prefer. 

Come from the west, — the bond, the free, 
His easy service make your choice ; 

Ye isles of the Pacific Sea, 

Like halcyon-nests, in God rejoice. 

Come from the south ; — through desert sands, 
A highway for the Lord prepare ; 

Let Ethiopia stretch her hands. 
And Libya pour her soul in prayer. 

Come from the north ; — let Europe raise 
In all her languages one song ; 

Give God the glory, power, and praise. 
That to His holy name belong. 

For He hath bow'd the heavens above, 
And at His feet the mountains flow'd ; 



276 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

He came ; — but not in wrath ; — in love, 
To make with men His pure abode. 

8 With smiles, earth ! thy Maker meet : 
Nations, before your Saviour fall ; 
Redemption is in Him complete, 
The Gospel now is preach'd to all. 



HYMN CCLXVII. 

The Reign of Christ on Earth. — Ps. Ixxii. 

1 Hail to the Lord's Anointed ! 

Great David's greater Son ; 
Hail in the time appointed, 

His reign on earth begun ! 
He comes to break oppression, 

To set the captive free ; 
To take away transgression, 

And rule in equity. 

2 He comes with succour speedy, 

To those who suffer wrong ; 
To help the poor and needy. 

And bid the weak be strong : 
To give them songs for sighing, 

Their darkness turn to light ; 
Whose souls, condemn'd and dying, 

Were precious in His sight. 

3 By such shall He be feared, 

While sun and moon endure. 
Beloved, obey'd, revered ; 
For He shall judge the poor, 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 277 

Through changing generations, 

With justice, mercy, truth. 
While stars maintain their stations 

Or moons renew their youth. 

4 He shall come down like showers, 

Upon the fruitful earth, 
And love, joy, hope, like flowers. 

Spring in His path to birth : 
Before Him, on the mountains. 

Shall Peace, the herald, go ; 
And Righteousness, in fountains, 

From hill to valley flow. 

5 Arabia's desert-ranger 

To Him shall bow the knee, 
The Ethiopian stranger 

His glory come to see : 
With offerings of devotion, 

Ships from the Isles shall meet. 
To pour the wealth of ocean 

In tribute at His feet. 

6 Kings shall fall down before Him, 

And gold and incense bring. 
All nations shall adore Him, 

His praise all people sing : 
For He shall have dominion 

O'er river, sea, and shore, 
Far as the eagle's pinion 

Or dove's light wing can soar. 

7 For Him shall prayer unceasing, 

And daily vows ascend ; 



278 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

His kingdom still increasing, 
A kingdom without end : 

The mountain-dews shall nourish 
A seed in weakness sown, 

Whose fruit shall spread and flourish, 
And shake like Lebanon. 

8 O'er every foe victorious, 

He on His throne shall rest, 
From age to age more glorious, 

All-blessing and all-blest ; 
The tide of time shall never 

His covenant remove ; 
His Name shall stand for ever, 

That Name to us is — Love. 



HYMN CCLXVm. 

An urdversal Sabhath Day anticwated. ■ 
PAET I. 

1 Will e'er that sabbath-morning rise. 

When on the Sun of Kighteousness, 
Earth's wakening millions lift their eyes 
His healing beams to hail and bless :- 

2 When God's own day of rest shall be 

Hallow'd, by all that live and move 
On peopled land, or desert sea. 

While all its hallowing influence prove 



OKIGINAL HYMNS. 279 

3 When men of every hue and speech 

Shall hasten to the House of Prayer, 
And Christ's disciples go and teach 
The Gospel to all nations there : — 

4 When meekly every heart receives 

The engrafted word, whose vigorous shoots 
Yield in their season tender leaves, 

Expanding flowers, and ripen'd fruits : — 

5 Leaves of profession ever green, 

And flowers of promise never sere, 
Till fruits of holiness are seen. 
In rich succession round the year. 

PART II. 

6 As in Jerusalem above. 

Life's trees, the plants of God's right hand. 
Along the river of His love. 

To nourish saints and angels, stand : — 

7 So earth, that garden of the Lord, 

Though long laid waste for man's offence, 
May yet see Paradise restored, 
And a new age of innocence. 

8 When Adam's offspring, born to death, 

From sun to sun, from pole to pole. 
Shall feel again the Ahuighty's breath, 
And man become a living soul : — 

9 A soul new-born, beyond the range 

Of time, temptation, death, or sin, 

God's image, stampt on it, to change. 

Nor quench the life of God within. 



280 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

10 Eye hath not seen, ear hath not heard, 
Nor heart of man conceived the grace, 
Which God, in His eternal word. 

Hath surely promised, shall take place. 

110 Sun of Kighteousness ! unveil 
Thy heaven of uncreated rays. 
Till all that breathe shall bless and hail 
The glory of the latter days. 

12 Meanwhile, rejoicing on their beds. 

Whatever morning meets their eye. 

May saints, from slumber lift their heads. 

To greet the day-spring from on high. 



HYMN CCLXIX. 

Jubilee Anniversary of the Baptist Missionary Society, 

1 BE joyful, every nation ! 

Hail the day with sacred mirth, 
When the trumpet of salvation 
Sounds the jubilee of earth. 

And creation 
Travails with the world's new birth. 

2 Then the north, in darkness shrouded, 

Jacob's rising star shall bless ; 
And the eastern morn, unclouded. 
Bring the sun of righteousness, 

Cheering, healing. 
Sin-sick souls in heart's distress. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 281 

Then her swarthy sons and daughters, 

Afric to the Cross shall bring ; 
And the angel of the waters 

Hear His coral islands sing, 
" Hallelujah ! " 

Till the w^iole Pacific ring. 

thou everlasting Father, 

Grive the kingdoms to Thy Son ; 
He hath died that He might gather 

All God's children into one ; 
For the travail 

Of His soul, let this be done ! 
Yea, it must be : — Thou hast spoken, 

And Thy covenant shall last ; 
Though the arch of heaven were broken, 

And the earth's foundations cast 
Down the abysses ; 

Yet Thy word, God, stands fast. 

On Thy holy hill of Zion, 

Hast Thou not ordained His seat ? 
Now, as Judah's conquering lion, 

Lay all foes beneath His feet, 
Till His armies 

In eternal triumph meet. 

We have join'd their marching legions, 
Where our fathers fought, we fight ; 

Slavery's cane-lands, Brama's regions. 
Are exulting at the sight ; 

Freedom, freedom, 
Comes with Gospel-life and light. 



282 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 



All the languages of Babel, 



Weapons for the warfare yield ; 
And with these we well are able, 
By Thy Spirit's might, to wield 

In the battle, 
Truth's safe guard, and Faith's strong 
shield. 

Thus, through fifty years victorious, 
Thou hast led our brethren on ; 

Arm them now for deeds more glorious, 
Till the latest field is won : 

And all people 
Bow the knee, and kiss the Son. 



HYMN CCLXX. 

On the Jtibilee oftlie Church Missionary Society. 

1 The King of Glory we proclaim — 

Who is the King of Glory ? He 
To seek and save the lost who came, 
The Jew, the Gentile, bond and free. 

2 Heralds through every clime we send, 

His great salvation to make known : 
The Church's Head, the Sinner's Friend, 
Christ on His mediatorial throne. 

3 Here, for the travail of His soul, 

He claims the promised heritage, 
The Father's gift — from pole to pole — 
Earth's utmost bound, to time's last age. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 283 

4 Him shall all tongues confess, all knees 

Shall bow before that mercy-seat, 
Love reconcile all enemies, 

Or wrath subdue beneath His feet. 

5 A year of Jubilee we hail ! 

Since we in faith this work began 
It must go on : it cannot fail 

While we are true to God and man. 

6 So, Father, glorify Thy Son, 

So Thou in Him be glorified. 
Till all the straying sheep are won. 

For whom the Lokd their Shepherd died. 



HYMN CCLXXI. 

For the Centenary JuMlee of the Moravian^ or United 
Brethren's ChiircJi, June IT, 1822. 

1 Thine arm, Lord, of old - 

In lands of desolation. 
Enclosed an humble fold. 

Redeemed a congregation : 
Our fathers, like a flock. 

The great, good Shepherd led. 
Gave water from the rock, 

With heavenly manna fed. 

2 A poor, afflicted race. 

But in Thy name confiding, 
They walk'd before Thy face. 
Thou in their midst abiding ; 



284 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

While Satan's fellest rage 

With patient faith they bore ; 

Consumed from age to age, 
Till known on earth no more. 

3 Yet was a remnant saved ; 

Still wrestling with affliction, 
Their foes they singly braved, 

Beneath Thy benediction : 
Again went forth the word. 

Abroad the Spirit flew ; 
The voice of God was heard, 

Creating all things nevf. 

4 An hundred years are past, 

Since that revival glorious; 
And still Thy Church stands fast, 

O'er earth and hell victorious : 
The path our fathers trod, 

Lay through Gethsemane, 
Thither, Lamb of God, 

This day we follow Thee. 

5 Thence borne to Calvary's brow, 

Thy griefs and sorrows viewing, 
With heart, soul, spirit, now 

Our covenant renewing : 
Thy love we here record. 

Our sins with tears bewail ; 
Thy blood pleads for us. Lord ; 

let that plea prevail. 

6 Through suffering, shame, and loss, 

Through honour, wealth, and pleasure, 



OKIGINAL HYMNS. 285 

To glory in Thy Cross, 

As our eternal treasure ; 
That Cross with joy to bear 

Through realms that know Thee not ; 
And thus Thy way prepare, 

Still be Thy Brethren's lot. 



HYMN CCLXXII. 

For the Centenary Celebration, August 13, 182*7, of the 
memorable day of the union of all hearts and minds in the 
congregation of the United Brethren at Hernhtit, amongst 
•whom, since their revival, five years previously, consider- 
able differences had prevailed on minor points, which were 
all blessedly reconciled at the Holy Sacrament in the parish 
church of Bethelsdorf, in 1121. 

1 The God of your forefathers praise. 

Thou, Brethren's Congregation ! 
Whose mighty arm, by wondrous ways, 

Accomplished their salvation : 
He heard their groans, came down and broke 
The bigot's chain, the tyrant's yoke. 

And led them forth to freedom. 

2 He brought them to his chosen place, 

Among the woods and mountains ; 
The desert fled before their face. 

Gardens, and fields, and fountains. 
Bound their new homes and temple sprang. 
While day and night hosannas rang 

Throu2:h all their little Zion. 



286 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

3 They walked with God in peace and love, 

But failed with one another ; 
While sternly for the faith they strove, 

Brother fell out with brother : 
But He, in whom they put their trust. 
Who knew their frames, that they were dust. 

Pitied and healed their weakness. 

4 He found them in His house of prayer. 

With one accord assembled, 
And so reveal'd His presence there. 

They wept for joy, and trembled ; 
One cup they drank, one bread they brake, 
One baptism shared, one language spake, 

Forgiving and forgiven. 

5 Then forth they went with tongues of flame. 

In one blest theme delighting. 
The love of Jesus, and His Name 

God's children all uniting ! 
That love, our theme and watchword still ; 
That law of love may we fulfil, 

And love as we have loved. 

6 Jesus, Thy little flock behold. 

Here met in sweet communion. 
Confirm, as in the years of old. 

Our sacramental union ; 
Renew that day of Pentecost, 
Send down on us the Holy Ghost, 

The promise of the Fathei:. 

7 Now blow the trump of Jubilee, 

And while the Church rejoices, 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 287 

As in one faith, hope, charity, 

Join songs, and hearts, and voices, 
To Father, Son, and Spirit raise. 
On earth, the song of heavenly praise, 
Sing, -Holy, Holy, Holy/' 



HYMN CCLXXIIL 

For the Centenary Anniversai'ies of the Brethren's Elder- 
ship, and the beginning of the Society for the furtheranca 
of the Gospel in the Moravian Church, November 13 and 
19, 1841. 



PART I. 

All hail ! our Church's Elder dear, 

Jesus, her glorious head ! 
To Thy disciples now ajDpear, 

As risen from the dead ; 
Let our rejoicing souls in Thee, 
The tokens of Thy Passion see. 
And hear Thy gentle voice anew. 

Say - Peace be unto you/' 

Remembering what our fathers told, 
Thou didst in their young day, 

This solemn Jubilee we hold. 
That we, as then did they, 

Ourselves in covenant may bind, 

With soul and strength, and heart and mind. 

Through life and death, on land, o'er sea, 
Meekly to follow Thee. 



288 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

3 Ile\ive Thy work amidst the years, 

Our brethren still employ, 
O'er heathen soils to sow in tears, 

With hope to reap in joy : 
Though wicle the fields, the labourers few, 
If Thou our failing faith renew. 
The weakest of Thy servants, we 

Can all things do through Thee. 

4 Through Thee, from Greenland's sterile rocks, 

Rich harvests have been led ; 
In Indian forests wandering flocks, 

With heavenly knowledge fed ; 
In island-prisons o'er the sea, 
Bond-slaves have been made gospel-free ; 
Midst lion-haunts, on Afric sands. 

Strange tribes lift holy hands. 

PART II. 

5 To-day, one world-neglected race. 

We fervently commend 
To Thee, and to Thy Word of grace ; 

Lord, visit and befriend 
A people scattered, peel'd, and rude, 
By land and ocean-solitude. 
Cut off from every social shore. 

In dreary Labrador. 

6 Thither, while to and fro she steers. 

Still guide our annual bark *, 

* For particulars of the missionary ship, and the provi- 
dence which has preserved her through so many perilous 
annual vo3^iges, vide periodical accounts of the Missions of 
the Unite<i Brethren. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 289 

By night and day, through hopes and fears, 

While, lonely' as the ark, 
Along her single track she braves, 
Giilphs, whirlpools, ice-fields, winds, and 

waves. 
To waft glad tidings to the shore 

Of longing Labrador. 

7 How welcome to the watching eye, 

From morn till evening fix'd. 
The first faint speck that shews her nigh, 

Where surge and sky are miss'd ; 
Till looming large, and larger yet. 
With bounding prow, and sails full set. 
She speeds to anchor on the shore 

Of joyful Labrador. 

8 Then hearts with hearts, and souls with souls, 

In thrilling transport meet. 
Though dark and broad the Atlantic rolls. 

Between their parted feet : 
For written words, with boundless range. 
Thoughts, feelings, prayers, can interchange. 
And once a year join Britain's shore 

To kindred Labrador. 

9 Then at the vessel's glad return. 

The absent meet again ; 
At home our hearts within us burn. 

To trace the cunning pen. 
Whose strokes, like rays from star to star, 
Bring happy messages from far. 
And once a year to Britain's shore 

Join Christian Labrador. 
13 



290 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 



PART III. 

10 Tliou, in whom we all are one, 
If faithful found and true, 

Thy will on earth by each be done, 
As each in heaven would do : 

To Thee ourselves we first would give, 

Live to Thy glory while we live ; 

From step to step on Thee rely. 
Then in Thy service die. 



HYMN CCLXXIV. 

For the Julilee Celebration of the Religious Tract 
Society, 1848. 

PART I. 

1 The sunbeams, infinitely small, 

In numbers numberless, 

Keveal, pervade, illumine all 

Nature's void wilderness. 

2 But, meeting worlds upon their way. 

Wrapt in primeval night. 
In language without sound, they say 
To each — " Godsends you light" 

3 Anon, with beauty, life and love. 

Those wandering planets glow, 
And shine themselves, as stars above, 
On gazers from below. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 291 

4 Oh ! could the first ArchangeFs eye, 

In everlasting space, 
Thi'ough all the mazes of the sky, 
A single sunbeam trace ! 

5 He might behold the lonely one 

Its destiny fulfil, 
As punctual as the parent-sun 
Performs its Maker's will. 

PART II. 

6 The Sun of Righteousness, with rays 

Of uncreated light, 
His power and glory thus displays 
Through Nature's darkest night. 

7 The night of guilt, remorse, despair, 

In which transgressors roam. 
Yet, self-bewilder'd everywhere. 
Never draw nearer home. 

8 On such, with healing in His wings, 

Along their downward path, 
Guidance and help His rising brings. 
And warns to flee from wrath. 

9 Eays from that Sun of Righteousness, 

Our humble missiles dart ; 
Mighty at once to wound and bless. 
To break and bind the heart. 

10 Tracts, those swift messengers of peace 
For men, with God at strife. 
To Satan's slaves proclaim release, 
To Death's condemn'd-ones, life. 



292 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

11 Not with the excellence of speech, 

But by the Spmt of Truth, 
The doctrines of the Cross they preach 
To manhood, age, and youth. 

12 They flash the terrors of the Lord, 

To make the scorner fear. 
But speak the Gospel's sweetest word 
In the poor sinner's ear. 

13 Oh ! could the first Archangel's sight 

The least of these pursue, 
He might record, — in its brief flight. 
Each had a work to do. 

14 A work of grace, a work of j)Ower, 

But, what that was below. 
Time's last, Eternity's y^Vs^ horn- 
To heaven and earth will show. 

15 Ye ! who send these heralds forth — 

By millions bid them fly, — 
From east to west, from south to north. 
As sunbeams fill the sky. 



HYMN CCLXXV. 

For the JuMlee of the Religious Tract Society^ 1848. 

1 Proclaim the year of Jubilee ; 
New songs of glory sing ; 
From shore to shore, from sea to sea, 
Your gratulations bring. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 293 

2 Through fifty years the constant sun. 

On his untiring race, 
Eound the blue firmament hath run, 
Since that first day of grace : — 

3 When tracts, on embassies of love, 

By our forefathers sent. 
Charged with glad tidings from above, 
Into all nations went. 

4 Now, by the Spirit of the Lord, 

With bounty unconfined, 
The eternal riches of His Word 
Are dealt to all mankind. 

5 Tracts have the gift of tongues ; they preach 

Through every peopled land, 
In all the forms of human speech, 
What all may understand : — 

6 Salvation in that Holy Name, 

Which heaven and earth adore, 
Christ Jesus, yesterday the same. 
To-day, and evermore. 

7 Tracts have the wings of angels, spread 

To waft the joyful sound 
Of resurrection from the dead, 
Where'er the curse is found : — 

8 The primal curse from Adam's fall. 

Sin's wages, and sin's doom. 
The bitterness of life, and all 
The terrors of the tomb. 



294 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

9 What scale of numbers, grasp of thought, 
What power of words could speak 
The miracles of mercy wrought 
By mstruments so weak ? 

10 Weak, but almighty at His will, 

Who speaks, and it is done ; 
With whom, to purpose and fulfil, 
The will and power are one. 

11 In the LamVs Book of Life, alone 

Those annals lie, in sight 
Of Him who sits upon the throne, 
— Whose deeds can bear that light ? 

12 Can ours, who, where our fathers trod, 

Along this narrow way, 
Would work like them, the works of God, 
Like them, would watch and pray ? 

13 Bound in the same sure covenant, 

Let us, their children, be ; 
And, Lord, that we may keep it, grant 
The mind which was in Thee. 



HYMN CCLXXYI. 

The Poor praying for Bread in Time of Scarcity. 

1 To GrOD most awful and most high. 
Who form'd the earth, the sea, tlie sky ; 
To Him on whom all worlds depend. 
Our humbled hearts in sighs we send. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 295 

2 Will He who hears the ravens cry, 
Reject our prayers, and bid us die ? 
Will He refuse His keep to yield, 
Who clothes the Hlies of the field ? 

3 Pale famine lifts at His command. 

Her withering arm, and blasts the land ; 
The harvests perish at her breath. 
Her train are want, disease, and death. 

4 But when He smiles the desert blooms. 
New life is born among the tombs ; 
O'er the glad plains abundance teems. 
And plenty rolls in bounteous streams. 

5 Father of grace w^hom we adore, 
Bless Thy large family — the poor ; 
The poor on Thee alone depend, 
Continue Thou the poor man's friend. 

6 Content to live by toil and pain. 
May we eternal riches gain ; 
Meanwhile, by Thy free goodness fed, 
Grive us this day our daily bread. 



HYMN CCLXXVII. 

God cares for Birds and Flowers. — Luke, xii. 24 — 27. 

. Flowers grow in sweet societies, 
O'er meadow, hill, and dale ; 
Mingle their colours to our eyes, 
Their perfumes in the gale. 



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2 Sprung from the dust, they rise above 

The meanness of then- birth ; 
They look to heaven, and yet they love 
To beautify the earth. 

3 Not birds more duly build and sing, 

Nor stars in turn appear, 
Than these their splendid legions bring, 
To crown and close the year. 

4 They toil not, neither do they spin, 

And yet their Maker's will. 
Exempt from sorrow, as from sin, 
They live but to fulfil. 

5 Ah ! thus might He that made us, see 

Our Sabbath Schools increase ; 
And while we dwell in unity. 
In Him may we have peace ; — 

6 Like flowers from Him receive, dispense 

The fragrance of His grace ; 
And when, like flowers, transplanted hence. 
May fairer fill our place. 



HYMN CCLXXVIII. 

For a wet Harvest Season. 

We lift our eyes, om^ hands, to Thee, 
Our knees, our souls, to Thee we bend 

Father of all earth's family, 

The appointed weeks of harvest send. 



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2 The ground, Thy table, is full-spread 

With food to nourish man and beast, 

Hast Thou prepared the children's bread, 

And wilt Thou now forbid the feast ? 

3 Summer and winter, day and night, 

Seed-time and harvest Thou hast will'd ; 
And dew and rain, and warmth and light. 
Have each their gracious work fulfiird. 

4 Shall whelming floods the hopes destroy 

Of those who in Thy promise trust ? 
Shall storms prevent the reaper's joy, 
And lay his confidence in dust ? 

5 bid the^ winds and waters cease. 

The lowering firmament unshroud ; 
Think on Thy covenant of peace, 

Look on Thy bow, — 'tis in the cloud ! 

6 We fall adoring at Thy feet. 

Our prayer is heard, the veil is riven ; 
With pure heart-offerings let us eat 

The bread that cometh down from heaven. 



HYMN CCLXXIX. 

Thanksgiving for Harvest. 

The God of harvest praise. 
In loud thanksgivings, raise 
Hand, heart, and voice ; 
The valleys laugh and sing. 
Forests and mountains ring, 
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The plains their tribute bring, 
The streams rejoice. 

2 Of food for man and beast. 
Jehovah spreads a feast, 

Above, beneath : 
Ye herds and flocks, draw near, 
Fowls, ye are welcome here ; 
His goodness crowns the year 

For all that breathe. 

3 Garden and orchard ground. 
Autumnal fruits have crown'd. 

The vintage glows : 
Here plenty pours her horn ; 
There the full tide of corn, 
Sway'd by the breath of morn. 

The land overflows. 

4 The wind, the rain, the sun. 
Their genial work have done ; 

Wouldst thou be fed ? 
Man, to thy labour bow, 
Thrust in the sickle now. 
Reap where thou once didst plough, 

God sends thee bread. 

5 Thy few seeds scatter'd wide, 
His hand hath multiplied ; 

Here thou may'st find 
Christ's miracle renewed ; 
With self-producing food. 
He feeds a multitude, — 

He feeds mankind. 



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6 The God of harvest praise ; 
Hands, hearts, and voices raise 

With one accord ; 
From field to garner throng, 
Bearing your sheaves along ; 
And in your harvest song. 

Bless ye the Lord. 

7 Yea, bless His Holy Name, 
And your souls' thanks proclaim 

Through all the earth : 
To glory in your lot 
Is comely ; — but be not 
His benefits forgot 

Amidst your mirth. 



HYMN CCLXXX. 

Heart- Searching. — Jeremiah, viii. 20. 

1 Is summer ended, — harvest past, 

And I not saved ? — Gtod of grace, 
Thy covenant yet standeth fast, 

Still Thy command is — '' Seek my face." 

2 Ah ! now or never may I call 

On Thy great Name, through ChrisTj Thy 
Son ; 
This hour, tliis moment, I might fall, — 
Fall, and for ever be undone. 

3 Save, Lord, I perish ! — hear my cry ; 

I walk in darkness, — Thou art light ; 



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Shine forth upon my spirit's eye, 
Faith, that outsees the eye of sight. 

4 Faint, yet pursuing, I lay hold 

On Thy sure Word, which cannot fail ; 
Through weakness strong, by fear made bold, 
I plead that Word, and must prevail. 

5 Thine own Almightiness is mine, 

When wrestling thus in prayer with Thee ; 
Through Christ's atonement, I am Thine ; 
Now let me Thy salvation see. 



HYMN CCLXXXI. 

" Lord ! Iteseech Thee^ deliver my Soul. — P.s. cxvi. 4. 

1 TAKE away this evil heart ; 

This heart of unbelief renew ; 
So prone, so eager to depart 

From Thee, the living God and true. 

2 crucify this carnal mind, 

'Tis enmity, my GrOD, to Thee ; 
I cannot love Thee, till I find 

The mind that was in Christ in me. 

3 sanctify this sinful soul ; 

Health to the dying leper give ; 
Thou, if Thou wilt, canst make me whole ; 
Speak but the word, and I shall live. 

4 disenthrall this captive will, 

(Free only when Thou mak'st it free,) 
That I may glory to fulfil 
Thy perfect law of liberty. 



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Then, though through life, a worm of earth, 
In death returning to the clod, 

I shall become, by second birth, 
An heir of heaven, a child of God. 



HYMN CCLXXXII. 

The Hm'vest of tic o Worlds. — John, iv. 33. 

Lift up your eyes, look round ; 

The fields to harvest white. 
Are bow'd, and shaking to the ground ; 

Where soon must perish quite. 
The sower's seed, the tiller's toil. 

The husbandman's abortive trust. 
Whose crops ungather'd load the soil, 

Down trodden to the dust : 
For wide the fields are spread, and far. 
And few, and weak, the labourers are. 

Lord of the Harvest ! now. 

Send faithful labourers forth. 
To wield the sickle, guide the plough, 

Where east, west, south, and north, 
Far as the fields of life are spread, 

The scythe of Time, at Death's stern doom, 
Is reaping harvests for the dead. 

To crowd the garner-tomb : 
Lord ! Lord ! a precious remnant save 
From death — from death beyond the grave. 



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HYMN CCLXXXIII. 

TJie Effect of Gospel Blessings. 

1 As from the winter sky, 

When keen the tempests blow, 
O'er fields that waste and barren lie, 
Descends the softening snow ; 

2 Not with ice-binding cold 

To chill the stubborn soil. 
But crumble and prepare the mould 
To meet the plougher's toil. 

3 Then dew, rain, thunder-showers, 

With milk and honey feed 
The infant family of flowers. 
And nurse the sower's seed. 

4 Till autumn-sunshine bland, 

The grateful ground receives. 
And harvest-moonlight, o'er the land, 
Brings home the reaper's sheaves : — 

5 Thus, in the reign of grace, 

Come gospel-blessings down, 
And where they fall or shine, the place 
With love, joy, peace, they crown. 

6 God's word, His will performs. 

And in this world, destroy'd 
By sin and death, through calms or storms, 
Returns not to Him void. 



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May our great union-field, 
Where precious seed is sown, 

Harvests of souls in season yield 
To gather round His throne. 



HYMN CCLXXXIV. 

A Bygone Year. 

For who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto 
Me? saith the Lord" — Jer. xxx. 21. 

1 A YEAR, another j^ear is fled ; 

Its issues who can tell ? 
Millions of voices of the dead 
Eeply from heaven or hell. 

2 All these were living at the birth 

Of the departed year ; 
They all have vanish'd from the earth, 
We fill their places here. 

3 Though to the eye, the ear, the mind 

Of man their speech is seal'd. 
The eternal meaning each may find, 
In two plain words reveal'd. 

4 Lost spirits, from the dark abyss, 

Cry mournfully " Beivare ! " 
Spirits in glory, and in bliss. 
Sing joyfully " Prepare ! " 

5 Thus timely warned, and moved with fear. 

Of wrath, let us beware ; 
For life or death, in this new year. 
For earth and heaven prepare. 



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6 Who then of those with us, this day 
In childhood, youth, or age, 
" To love the Lokd our GrOD " can say 
" We all our hearts eno:ao:e." 



HYMN CCLXXXV. 

For a Female Friendly Society. 

1 Our soul shall magnify the Lord, 

In Him our spirit shall rejoice ; 
Assembled here with sweet accord. 

Our hearts shall praise Him with our voice. 

2 Since He regards our low estate. 

And hears His handmaids when they pray, 
We humbly plead at Mercy's gate, 
Where none are ever turned away. 

3 The poor are His peculiar care. 

To them His promises are sure ; 
His gifts the poor in spirit share : 
may we always thus be poor ! 

4 God of our hope, to Thee we bow, 

Thou art our refuge in distress ; 
The Husband of the widow, Thou, 
The Father of the fatherless. 

5 May we the law of love fulfil. 

To bear each other's burdens here ; 
buffer, and do Thy righteous will, 
And walk in all Thy faith and fear. 



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6 Didst Thou not give Thy Son to die, 

For our transgressions, in our stead ? 
And can Thy goodness aught deny 
To those for whom Thy Son hath bled 

7 Then may our union, here begun, 

Endure for ever, firm and free ; 
At Thy right-hand may we be one, 
One with each other, and with Thee. 



HYMN CCLXXXVI. 

Hymn for tlie Opening of the Sheffield General 
Infirmary^ October^ l"i 97 . 

1 When, like a stranger on our sphere, 
The lowly Jesus sojourn'd here. 
Where'er He went Affliction fled, 
And Sickness rear'd her drooping head. 

2 The eye that roll'd in irksome night 
Beheld His face, for He was light ; 
The opening ear, the loosen'd tongue, 
His precepts heard, His praises sung. 

8 Demoniac Madness, dark and wild, 
With melancholy transport smiled ; 
The storm of horror ceased to roll. 
And reason light en'd through his soul. 

4 His touch the outcast leper heal'd, 
His lips the sinner's pardon seal'd ; 
The palsied frame, the crippled limb. 
Felt Virtue going forth from Him. 



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5 Behold Him in the wilderness, 

He lifts His hand the bread to bless ; 
And while the fainting multitude 
Look'd up to Him^ gave all their food. 

6 In Him with man's infirmity, 
The fulness of the Godhead see, 
Warm tears o'er Lazarus He shed, 

Then spake the word that raised the dead. 

7 Through paths of loving-kindness brought. 
May all our work in Him be wrought ; 

In His great Name, let us dispense 
The crumbs of our benevolence. 

8 Hark ! the sweet voice of pity calls 
Misfortune to these hallow'd walls ; 

The breaking heart, and burthen'd breast, 
And helpless Poverty distrest. 

9 Here the whole family of woe 

Shall friends, and home, and comfort know ; 
The blasted form and shipwreck'd mind, 
ShaU here a tranquil haven find. 

10 And Thou, dread Power ! whose sovereign 
breath, 
Is health or sickness, life or death. 
Send Thine abundant blessing down. 
And with success our labours crown. 



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HYMN CCLXXXVII. 

For the Molyneux Hospital., Dublin. 

1 Father of light, and life, and love, 

Thyself to us reveal. 
As saints below and saints above 
Thy sacred presence feel. 

2 Not with the eye of mortal sense, 

By angels round the throne. 
Or happy souls departed hence. 
Art Thou in glory known. 

3 No sun by day, no moon by night, 

For this our spirits need. 
Who walk by faith, and not by sight, 
They feel Thee nigh indeed. 

4 Light in Thy light the blind may see. 

No more by sin estranged ; 

Light in the Lord, so let us be. 

Into Thine image changed. 

5 Since Thou Thyself dost still display 

Unto the pure in heart ; 
make us, children of the day. 
To know Thee as Thou art. 



6 For Thou art light, and life, and love 
And Thy redeemed below 
May see Thee, as Thy saints above. 
And know Thee as they know. 



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HYMN COLXXXVIII. 

For a Sermon before a Society for the Recovery of Persons 
apparently Droioned. 

1 When Israel, press'd by Pharaoh, stood, 

Affrighted, on the Red Sea shore. 
At Thy rebuke, Lord, the flood 

Retired, — the ransom'd tribes pass'd o'er. 

2 When Jonah was cast out to die, 

And all Thy storms went o'er his head. 
Thou, from the depths didst hear his cry. 
And raise him thence as from the dead. 

3 When Peter, walking on the wave. 

Felt his faith fail, his footsteps sink, 
Thy blessed Son was there to save. 

And snatch'd him from destruction's brink. 

4 Within Thy courts, great God, behold 

A little grateful band appear ; 
O'er these the whelming waters roll'd. 
But help was nigh, and they are here. 

5 Here, in Thy courts, their vows to pay, 

And praise Thee with their living breath ; 
Where had their spirits been this clay, 
Hadst Thou not rescued them from death ? 

6 Redeem'd from the devouring tomb, 

Restored to life, and joy, and bliss ; 
save them from a deeper gloom, 
And to a happier world than this. 



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HYMN CCLXXXIX. 

For a Day of Humiliation during tlie Prevalence of tht 
Cholera. 

1 Let the land mourn through all its coasts, 

The king lay by his state ; 
Princes and rulers, at their posts, 
Awhile sit desolate. 

2 Let priests and people, high and low, 

Kich, poor, and great, and small, 
Invoke, in fellowship of woe, 
The Maker of them all. 

3 For GrOD hath summon'd from his place 

Death, in a direr form. 
To waken, warn, and scourge our race. 
Than earthquake, fire, or storm. 

4 Let Churches weep within their pale, 

And fimiilies apart ; 
Let each in secresy bewail 
The plague of his own heart. 

5 So, while the land bemoans its sin. 

The pestilence may cease, 
And mercy, tempering wrath, bring in 
Not health alone, but peace : — 

6 The peace of God, which passeth thought, 

Keep every heart and mind. 
Till all, by this afiliction taught. 
Be to His will resio^n'd. 



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HYMN CCXC. 

During the Cholera. — Confession and Supplication. 

1 It is the Lord ! — Behold His hand 

Outstretched with an afflictive rod ; 
And hark ! a voice goes through the land, 
" Be stillj and knov7 that I am GtOd/' 

2 Shall we, like guilty Adam, hide 

In darkest shades our darker fears ? 
For who His coming may ahide ? 

Or who shall stand when He appears ? 

3 No, — let us throng around His seat ; 

No, — let us meet Him face to face, 
Prostrate our sj)irits at his feet. 
Confess our sins, and sue for grace. 

4 Who knows but God will hear our cries, 

Turn swift destruction from our path, 
Kestrain His judgments, or chastise 
In tender mercy, not in wrath ? 

5 He will, He will, for Jesus pleads ; 

Let heaven and earth His love record ; 
For us, for us, He intercedes ; 

Our help is nigh : — it is the Lord ! 

6 Into His hands then let us fall. 

Come health or sickness, life or death ; 
Whether He send us balm for gall. 
Or immortality for breath. 



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HYMN CCXCI. 

Thanhsgimng for Delimrance from the Cholera. 

1 Walking on the winged wind, 
Fear before Him, Death behind ; 
When the Lord came down in wrath, 
Clouds and darkness girt His path. 

2 Thence abroad His arrows flew, 
Thick and fast they smote and slew ; 
We in dust and ashes lay. 

None could help, — but all could pray. 

3 Fervent prayer had power with God, 
Caught the lightnings on its rod. 
Faith and hope, amidst our bands, 
Holding up its weary hands. 

4 Prayer prevail'd amidst despair, 
God delights to honour prayer ; 
Judgment laid its terrors by, 
Mercy beam'd o'er earth and sky. 

5 Now be sorrow turned to song. 
Let the bruised reed grow strong, 
Smoking flax break forth and blaze, 
Prayer transform itself to praise. 

G Let the living now record 
All the goodness of the Lord ; 
Him let the redeemed adore. 
Go in peace, and sin no more. 



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HXMN CCXCII. 



for the Removal of the Cholera from 
Sheffield, 1832. 

Sing Hallelujah ; sing 

Grlory to God alone ! 
Bring your oblations, bring 

Thank-oiferings to the throne ; 
Take words of joy, of comfort take, 
Awake to love, to life awake. 

The Lord put forth His hand, 

He touch'd us and we died ; 
Vengeance went through the land. 

But mercy walk'd beside ; 
He heard our prayers ; He saw our tears. 
And stay'd the plague, and quell'd our fears, 

What shall we give to Thee ? 

Thou, whose purer eyes 
Behold iniquity 

In man's best sacrifice ? 
Ourselves we give, but rest our claim 
On Christ, and know none other Name. 

For Jesus' sake forgive 

Thy people. Lord, and spare. 
To Him and Thee to live, 

For Thine and His we are ; 
Thy quickening Spirit gave us breath. 
Thy Son, by death, has conquer'd death. 



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HYMN CCXCIII. 

On laying the FoU7idation Stone of a Church. 

Heaven as a tent Thine hand clisplay'd, 
Thy word the earth on nothing hung ; 

Thy power upholds what Thou hast made ; 
Thy praise, Lord God, by all be sung. 

Though small amidst the glorious space, 
Where suns and stars Thy might proclaim, 

To Thee we consecrate this place. 
Here we record Thy Holy Name. 

A temple built with hands, to Thee 
For children's children here shall rise ; 

may their ceaseless worship be, 
Pure offerings, free-will sacrifice. 

Now to the prayer of faith attend. 
Thou GrOD who answerest by fire ; 

An earnest of the Spirit send, 
Enlarge, fulfil, surpass desire. 



HYMN CCXCIV. 

On laying the Foundation Stone of a Church. 

The ground on which this day we stand. 

Holy henceforth shall be. 
For thus. Lord God of sea and land, 

Thine own we render Thee. 

Maker and Builder Thou, of all 
Around us and above, 



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On Thine Almighty Name we call 
To crown our work of love. 

3 If, moved by Thee, in dust we lay 

A true foundation here, 
Though heaven and earth must pass away. 
Thy counsel shall appear. 

4 An earthly temple to Thy praise, 

Our labouring hands would pile ; 
Do Thou a spiritual temple raise, 
Within its walls, the while. 

5 Of living stones that temple frame, 

Founded on Christ alone. 
Inscribed with His exalted name. 
By all men read and known. 

6 From thence, as time and tide roll by, 

May ransomed souls ascend. 
Safe in their Father's home on high, 
Eternity to spend. 



HYMN CCXCV. 

On the Conaecration of a ChurcJi, 

Not in Jerusalem alone, 

God hears and answers prayer. 
Nor on Samaria's mountain known. 

Dispenses blessings there. 
True worshippers may now draw nigh, 

Sinners may seek His face, 
Assured to meet His ear and eye, 

All times, in every place. 



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3 Hence in the secrecy of thought 

Our silent souls may pray, 
Or round the household altar brought 
Begin and close the day. 

4 Yet, meet it is, and right, and good, 

Where He records His Name, 
To mingle with the multitude. 
And His high praise proclaim. 

5 There, while the Lord their God they bless. 

And He shines forth on them. 
His Church appears in hohness, 
Their new Jerusalem. 

6 Then let us consecrate to Him, 

These walls with love and fear , 

God dwelt between the cherubim. 

May God in Christ dwell here. 



HYMN CCXCVI. 

On laying the Foundation Stone of a Place of Worship. 

1 A SURE and tried foundation stone. 

Lord God, in Zion Thou hast laid ; 
Grounded and fix'd on Christ alone. 
Thy Church shall flourish undismayed. 

2 In vain the gates of hell assail, 

Impregnable is her defence ; 
The rock of ages cannot fail, 

Nor winds, nor floods, remove her thence. 



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3 We build an earthly temple here ; 

Behold the work with favouring eye, 
And when our hands the top-stone rear, 
" Grace, grace unto it," be the cry. 

4 Then, by the Spirit of Thy might. 

Come with the Gospel's jojdul sound, 
And here reveaFd in Thine own light, 
Be Thou by all who seek Thee found. 

5 Lord ! we have loved Thy dwelling-place, 

Thy Mercy-seat with men below. 
Here then, to all who seek Thy face. 
From age to age Thy goodness show. 



HYMN CCXCVII. 

For the 02oening of a Place of Worship. 

Not here, as to the prophet's eye. 
The Lord upon His throne appears ; 

Nor seraphim responsive cry, 

" Holy ! thrice holy ! " in our ears. 

Yet God is present in this place, 

Yeil'd in serener majesty, 
So full of glory, truth, and grace. 

That faith alone such light can see. 

Nor, as He in the temple taught. 
Is Christ beneath this roof reveaFd, 

When blind, and deaf, and dumb, were 
brought, 
Lepers and lame, — and all were heaFd. 



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4 Yet here, when two or three shall meet, 

Or thronging multitudes are found, 
All may sit down at Jesus' feet, 

And hear and know the joyful sound. 

5 Send forth the seraphim, Lord ! 

To touch Thy servants' lips with fire ; 
Saviour ! give them Thy faithful word ; 
God, Holy Ghost ! their hearts inspire. 



HYMN CCXCVIIL 

On Commencing a Church and Cemetery. 

1 Father of glory, God of grace ! 

An house of prayer to Thee we build ; 
Oft may the consecrated place, 

Be with Thy grace and glory fill'd. 

2 Lord of. the living and the dead. 

When here the dead and living meet, 
The fullness of Thy blessing shed, 
On all who seek Thy mercy-seat. 

3 While those who sleep in Jesus, rest 

In kindred dust and ashes near. 
This thought — their souls in heaven are blest ! 
The hearts of mourning friends shall cheer. 

4 They lived by faith, in hope they died. 

The Cross behind their Saviour bore. 
And in His footsteps trod, to guide 
Their followers where He trod before. 



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5 We live, — Oh ! let the living praise 

The goodness that i)rolongs our breath ; 
We die, — die daily ; all our days 
Be preparation-days for death. 

6 Come, then, that end of mortal strife. 

We on Christ's faithful word rely, — 
'^ The Eesurrection and the Life ! " 
Who trust in Him shall never die. 



HYMN CCXCIX. 

For the Opening of a Place of Public Worship. 

1 Behold yon bright array. 

Before the sapphire throne ; 
There, young nor old, nor rich nor poor, 
There, bond nor free, are known. 

2 At once they strike their lyres, 

At once break off, — and all. 
With trembling joy, and silent love, 
In adoration fall. 

3 Whatever their lot below, 

As fellow-heirs of bliss, 
In heaven their services are one : 
Let earth be heaven in this. 

4 As brethren, thus may we 

Worship with one accord ; 
In stillness wait, in prayer bow down. 
Stand up, and bless the Lord. 



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5 As pilgrims on their way, 

Thousands these courts shall fill, 
And travel on from strength to strength, 
Abreast to Zion's hill. 

6 May all those pilgrims meet, 

When ftiith is changed to sight 
Where the Lord God Himself shall be 
The temple and the light : — 

7 Where on the sea of glass. 

The ransom'd nations sing, 
And to the Lamb that once was slain 
Eternal glory bring. 



HYMN CCC. 
On laying the Foundation Stone of a Place for Worship, 

1 This stone to Thee in faith we lay, 

We build the temple, Lord, to Thee ; 
Thine eye be open night and day. 
To guard this house and sanctuary. 

2 Here, when Thy people seek Thy face, 

And dying sinners pray to live. 
Hear, Thou, in heaven Thy dwelling-place. 
And when Thou hearest, forgive ! 

3 Here, when Thy messengers proclaim 

The blessed Gospel of Thy Son, 
Still, by the power of His great Name, 
Be mighty signs and wonders done. 



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4 Hosanua ! to their heavenly king, 

When children's voices raise that song ; 
Hosanna ! let their angels sing, 

And heaven with earth the strain prolong. 

5 But will indeed Jehovah deign 

Here to abide, no transient guest ? 
Here will the world's Kedeemer reign. 
And here the Holy Spirit rest ? 

6 That glory never hence depart ! 

Yet choose not, Lord, this house alone ; 
Thy kingdom come to every heart. 
In every bosom fix Thy throne. 



HYMN CCCI. 

On Oipening a Place for Worship. 

1 Lord of hosts, to Thee we raise 
Here an house of prayer and praise ; 
Thou Thy people's hearts prepare, 
Here to meet for praise and prayer. 

2 Let the living here be fed, 

With thy Word, the heavenly bread ; 
Here, in hope of glory bless'd, 
May the dead be laid to rest. 

3 Here to Thee a temple stand. 
While the sea shall gird the land ; 
Here reveal Thy mercy sure, 
While the sun and moon endure. 



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Hallelujah ! — earth and sky 
To the joyful sound reply ; 
Hallelujah ! — hence ascend 
Prayer and praise till time shall end. 



HYMN CCCII. 

For the Opening of an Organ. 

1 The morning stars in concert sang, 

When God created heaven and earth ; 
And earth and heaven with music rang, 
When angels haiFd Messiah's bu'th. 

2 From Eden to the King of kings, 

In sinless man's primeval days, 
The voices of all living things, 

All nature's sounds, were notes of praise. 

3 When Adam by transgression fell. 

Concord to dissonance was changed, 
And strife, the element of hell. 

The young world's harmony deranged. 

4 Nor ever, since His Sabbath-rest. 

When the great Maker from the skies, 
His finish'd works beheld and bless'd, 
Have songs of glory ceased to rise. 

5 Where two or three in union meet, 

Or thousands throng the house of prayer, 
Heart melodies, thanksgivings sweet. 
And faithful vows are offer'd there. 
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Now, with all in st rumen! s in one, 
All spirits tuned to one accord, 

Our prayer be this, — " Thy will be done ; " 
And this our anthem, — ' ' Praise the Lord !' 



HYMN CCCIII. 

Oil the Preparation of a Burial Ground. 

1 We plan foundations for the dead, 

But lay the earliest stone to Thee, 
Who, as the whole Creation's Head, 
Alone hast immortality. 

2 For in, and through, and over all, 

Extends Thy universal reign ; 
We know the heaven of heavens too small. 
Thy power and glory to contain. 

3 In Sinai's howling wilderness. 

Of old Thy presence deign'd to dwell ; 
The Tabernacle stood to bless. 
And guard the tents of Israel. 

4 So on this yet unpeopled plot. 

Whither the living shall rejjair, 
And thronging graves surround the spot, 
To Thee shall rise an house of prayer. 

5 Watch o'er this sanctuary keej), 

And oh ! may all who slumber here, 
Kedeem'd from sin in Jesus sleep. 
Till He who is their life appear. 



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6 As in His rock-hewn sepulchre, 

Where man had never lain before, 
Thy Son once rested, — we inter 

Our kindred, seen on earth no more. 

7 Then, at the last loud trumpet's breath. 

When quick and dead before Him stand. 
Saved from both first and second death, 
May these be found on his right-hand. 



HYMN CCCIV. 

For the Opening of a Chapel and Sunday School. 

1 Hallow'd be this humble spot. 

Like the place of Jacob's bed ; 
God was there, he knew it not. 
Till heaven open'd o'er his head. 

2 Angels travell'd through his dream. 

Time unveil'd eternity ; 
Then came forth a voice from Him, 
Whom no living eye can see. 

3 ^' I am God, — thy father's God, 

I will bless thee and increase. 
Give the land which thou hast trod. 
To thy seed, and send them peace." 

4 Not in visions of the night, 

God of Jacob ! on our way, 
But in noon of Gospel light, 

Here Thy power and grace display. 



324 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

5 Here, though prayer, since time begun, 

Never have been made before, 
Now be prayer from sire to son. 
Made till time shall be no more. 

6 Oft on embassies of love. 

Be descending angels sent, 
And returning spread above 
Joy o'er sinners that repent. 

7 Here the children's angels see 

Little ones to Jesus brought, 
In Thy nurture trained for Thee, 
By Thine admonition taught. 

8 While Thy ministers declare 

All the counsel of Thy will, 
Lord, Thy people's hearts prepare 
Every j^recept to fulfil. 

9 Here, when all that 4ive are dead, ' 

And the unborn supply their place. 
Age by age, may souls be led, 
In this house, to seek Thy face. 



HYMN CCCV. 

On the AfiJ ointment of a Minister. — Phil. ii. 2 

1 We bid thee welcome in the Name 
Of Jesus, our exalted Head ; 
Come as a servant, so He came, 
And we receive thee in His stead. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 325 

2 Come as a shepherd ; guard and keep 

This fold from hell, and earth, and sin ; 
Nourish the lambs, and feed the sheep, 
The wounded heal, the lost bring in. 

3 Come as a watchman ; take thy stand 

Upon thy tower amidst the sky ; 
And when the sword comes on the land, 
Call us to fight, or warn to fly. 

4 Come as an angel, hence to guide 

A band of pilgrims on their way. 
That, safely walking at thy side, 

We fail not, faint not, turn, nor stray. 

5 Come as a teacher sent from God, 

Charged His whole counsel to declare ; 
Lift o'er our ranks the prophet's rod, 
While Ave uphold thy hands with prayer. 

6 Come as a messenger of peace, 

Fiird with the Spirit, fired with love ; 
Live to behold our large increase. 
And die to meet us all above. 



HYMN CCCVL 

For a Meeting of Ministers. 

1 Pour out Thy Spirit from on high ; 

Lord, Thine assembled servants bless ; 
Graces and gifts to each supply. 

And clothe Thy priests with righteousness. 



326 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

2 Within Thy temple, when we stand 

To teach the truth, as taught by Thee ; 
Saviour, like stars in Thy right-hand, 
The angels of the Churches be. 

3 Wisdom, and zeal, and faith impart, 

Firmness with meekness, from above, 
To bear Thy people on our heart, 

And love the souls whom Thou dost love :— 

4 To watch, and pray, and never faint, 

By day and night, strict guard to keep, 
To warn the sinner, cheer the saint, 

Nourish Thy lambs, and feed Thy sheep. 

5 Then, when our work is finished here, 

In humble hope our charge resign ; 
When the Chief Shepherd shall appear, 
God ! may they and we be Thine. 



HYMN CCCYII. 

On the Death of a Minister. 

1 Kest from thy labours, rest. 

Soul of the just set free ! 
Blest be thy memory, and blest 
Thy bright example be. 

2 Now toil and conflict o'er, 

Go, take with saints thy place, 
But go, as each hath gone before, 
A sinner saved by grace. 



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3 Lord Christ, into Thy hands, 

Our pastor we resign ; 
And now we wait Thy own commands, — 
We were not hisj but Thine. 

4 Thou art Thy Churches Head, 

And when the members die, 
Thou raisest others in their stead, — 
To Thee we Hft our eye ; — 

5. On Thee our hopes depend. 
We gather round our Kock , 
Send whom Thou wilt, but condescend 
Thyself to feed Thy flock. 



HYMN CCCVIIL 

On the Death of a Minister^ cut off in Ms Vigour. 

1 Go to the grave in all thy glorious prime. 

In full activity of zeal and power ; 
A Christian cannot die before his time, 
The Lord's appointment is the servant's 
hour. 

2 Go to the grave ; at noon from labour 

cease ; 
Eest on thy sheaves, thy harvest-task is 
done ; 
Come from the heart of battle, and in peace. 
Soldier, go home ; with thee the fight is 
won. 



328 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

3 Go to the grave ; though like a fallen tree, 

At once with verdure, flowers, and fruitage 
crown'd ; 
Thy form may perish, and thine honours be 
Lost in the mouldering bosom of the 
ground ; — 

4 Go to the grave, which, faithful to its trust. 

The germ of immortality shall keep ; 
While safe, as watch'd by cherubim, thy dust 
Shall, till the Judgment-day, in Jesus sleep. 

5 Go to the grave, for there thy Saviour lay 

In Death's embraces, ere He rose on high ; 
And all the ransom'd, by that narrow way, 
Pass to eternal life beyond the sky. 

6 Go to the grave ; — no, take thy seat above ; 

Be thy pure spirit present with the Lord, 
Where thou, for faith and hope, hast perfect 
love. 
And open vision for the written Word. 



HYMN ccaix. 

Prayer for an Aged Minister. 

A BLESSING on our pastor's head. 
Lord God, we fervently implore ; 

On him this day a blessing shed, 
For life, for death, for evermore. 

For all that Thou in him hast wrought, 
For all that Thou by him hast done, 



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Our warmest, purest thanks be brought, 
Through Jesus Christ our Lord, Thy 
Son. 

3 To Thee he gave his flower of youth, 

To Thee his manhoocVs fruit he gave, 
The herald of Kfe-giving truth, 

Dead souls from deathless death to save. 

4 Forsake him not in his old age, 

But while his Master's Cross he bears. 
Faith be his staff on pilgrimage, 
A crown of glory his grey hairs. 

5 With holier zeal his heart enlarge, 

Though strength decay, and sight grow 
dim, 
That we, the people of his charge, 
May glorify Thy grace in him. 

6 So, when his warfare here shall cease, 

By suffering perfected in love, 
His ransom'd soul shall join in peace 
The Church of the first-born above. 



HYMN CCCX. 

On a Minister'' s Jubilee. 

Hallelujah ! heart and voice. 
Yielding all the praise to Thee, 

LoRD^ the flock would now rejoice 
In their shepherd's jubilee. 



330 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

2 Hallelujah ! heart and voice. 

When the clay of God they see, 
All Christ's sheep will thus rejoice, 
At his own great jubilee. 

3 Hallelujah ! hear and voice, 

Then in heaven one fold shall be, 
And one Shepherd, — to rejoice 
In eternal jubilee. 



HYMN CCCXI. 

0)1 the Death of an aged Minister. 

1 Servant of God, well done ! 

Rest from thy loved employ ! 
The battle fought, the victory won, 
Enter thy Master's joy. 

2 The voice at midnight came. 

He started up to hear ; 
A mortal arrow pierced his frame. 
He fell, — but felt no fear. 

3 Tranquil amidst alarms. 

It found him on the field, 
A veteran slumbering on his arms, 
Beneath his red-cross shield. 

4 His sword was in his hand, 

Still warm with recent fight. 
Ready that moment, at command, 
Through rock and steel to smite. 

5 It was a two-edged blade 

Of heavenly temper, keen ; 



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And double were the wounds it made. 
Where'er it glanced between. 

6 'Twas death to sin, — 'twas life 

To all who mourn'd. for sin ; 

It kindled and it silenced strife, 

Made war and peace within. 

7 Oft vvith its fiery force 

His arm had quell'd the foe, 
And laid, resistless in his course, 
The alien armies low. 

8 Bent on such glorious toils, 

The world to him was loss. 
Yet all his trophies, all his spoils, 
He hung upon the Cross. 

9 At midnight came the cry, 

" To meet thy God prepare ! " 
He woke, — and caught his Ca]3tain's eye ; 
Then, strong in faith and prayer, — 

10 His spirit, with a bound. 

Left its encumbering clay ; 
His tent, at sunrise, on the ground, 
A darkened ruin lay. 

11 The pains of death are past, 

Labour and sorrow cease ; 
And life's long warfare closed at last, 
His soul is found in peace, 

12 Soldier of Christ, well done ! 

Praise be thy new employ ; 
And while eternal ages run. 
Best in thy Saviour's joy. 



332 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCCXII. 

Aj)pealfrom Poor Children. 

1 Friends of the poor, the young, the weak, 

Regard our humble train ; 
Compassion at your hands we seek ; 
Shall children plead in vain ? 

2 Were you not children once ? — Renew 

The time when young as we ; 
Think of the friends that nourished you, 
And hearken to our plea. 

3 Are there not feelings from above, 

In every heart that reign ? 
The pulse, the voice, the look of love ; — 
Shall Nature plead in vain ? 

4 Have you no dear ones round 3'our hearth, 

As weak and young as we ? 
Think, if like ours had been tlieir birth, 
Could you resist the plea ? 

5 Have you not known a Saviour's grace. 

For man's redemption slain ? 
Behold that Saviour in our place ; — 
Shall Jesus plead in vain ? 

6 No ; — by His early griefs and tears. 

When poor and young as we ; 
By all His woes in after years, 
Accept your Saviour's plea. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 333 

HYMN CCCXIII. 

The Erection of a Sunday Scliool. 

1 A children's temple here we build, 

And consecrate it, Lord, to Thee ; 
In hope, that with Thy presence filVd, 
These humble walls henceforth may be. 

2 When Christ, Thy Holy Child, was born, 

He had not where to lay His head ; 
Though King of kings. He did not scorn 
The meanness of a manger-bed. 

3 He, who the throne of glory shares. 

Came down, that we, through sovereign 
love, 
Might be God's children, and God's heirs, 
Joint-heirs with Him in bliss above. 

4 And is He not to-day the same. 

And deigns He not to visit there. 
Where two or three, in His great Name, 
Are met for worship, praise, and prayer ? 

5 Ah ! yes, where simple souls are taught 

To know and do His Father's will. 
Or infants to His arms are brought. 
He welcomes all, and blesses still. 

6 Come, Holy Ghost ! while we draw nigh, 

Such life and power to us afford. 
That each may " Abba, Father ! " cry, 
And young and old call Jesus, Lord. 



334 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCCXIV. 

The Hajj'piness of those who loulk, with Christ. 

1 Happy the child, who early makes 

The path of duty his delight, 
The way of wickedness forsakes, 
And walks as in his Maker's sight. 

2 Happy the youth, w^hose soul hath found 

Pardon and favour with the Lord ; 
True riches shall to him ahound, 
True pleasures spring from God's 
word. 

3 Happy the man, who trusts in Thee, 

Christ, our Eedeemer, strong to save, 
Thy love through life his hliss shall be. 
In death his hope bej^ond the grave. 

4 Thrice happy they, who thus are taught 

To seek salvation here below. 
And young or old, determined naught. 
Save Jesus crucified, to know. 



HYMN CCCXY. 

The Souls of Children ransomed hy the Death, of GhruU 

1 Lord Jesus Christ, the children's Friend, 
On us lift up Thy gracious hands. 
And from Thy holy temple send 
Blessings on our united bands. 



OKIGINAL HYMNS. 335 

2 How precious in Thy Father's sight 

Were children's souls, when Thee He gave, 
His only Son, His heart's delight. 

From hell to heaven those souls to save ! 

3 What love to them, what love was Thine, 

Meek Lamb of God, when Thou didst give 
Thy soul, a sacrifice divine. 

Dying Thyself that they might Hve ! 

4 Nor less the Holy Spirit's grace. 

When by His light He Thee reveals. 
As though they saw Thee face to face^ 
And them as heirs of glory seals. 

5 Are children's souls of such high price ? 

With grief and gladness may we see, 
How sad their loss in Paradise, 
How great their gain on Calvary. 

6 Our own no longer, Thine thy are, 

In mercy bind them to Thy Cross ; 
Safe only from the tempter there. 
From second death and endless loss. 



HYMN CCCXVI. 

Poor Children praying for Grace. 

1 O Lord our God, Thy light and truth 
To us Thy children send, 
hat we may serve Thee in our youth. 
And love Thee to the end. 



336 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

2 By nature sinful, weak, and blind, 

The downward path we trod, 
Our wandering heart and wayward mind 
Were enemies to God. 

3 But friends and guardian s now, through grace, 

Our heedless steps restrain. 
They teach us. Lord, to seek Thy face, 
Which none shall seek in vain. 

4 Hence to the hills we lift our eyes, 

From which salvation springs ; 
Sun of Kighteousness, arise. 
With healing in Thy wings ! 

5 Arise, — and o'er this vale of tears, 

Shine into perfect day. 
Still heavenward, through progressive years, 
Pointing the Christian's way. 



HYMN CCCXVII. 

Youth resolving hy Voios and Prayer to serve the Lord. 

1 Youth, health, and strength are ours to-day, 

And years to come in prospect lie ; 
But youth, health, strength, must soon decay. 
This year — this moment, we may die. 

2 Brought to the altar of the Lord, 

Eternal enmity, we now 
To sin and Satan would record ; 
To Christ eternal homage vow. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 337 

3 Lord, to Thyself our spirits draw, 

Bind our affections with Thy love ; 
Incline our hearts to keep Thy law. 
And fix our hopes on things above. 

4 The fragrance, dew, and flower of youth, « 

The health and strength of Nature's prime. 
We here present ; — Oh ! Thine in truth 
Be all our talents, all our time. 

5 Heavenward our course on earth be bent, 

Where'er our future lot is cast ; 
And life, thus well and wisely spent, 
Be pure and holy to the last. 



HYMN CCCXYIII. 

The Heart given to God in acknowledgment of His 

IS. 



PART I. 

1 Our parents, brothers, sisters, friends, 

We love and hold most dear ; 
For these our Heavenly Father sends 
To make us happy here. 

2 They feed, they clothe, supply our wants. 

And bless us while they live ; 
But God, our Heavenly Father, grants 
Blessings they cannot give. 

3 We call them ours a little while — 

Then one by one departs, 
15 



338 ORIGINAL HYMI^S. 

And we no longer see their smile 
That won our youthful hearts. 

4 Our Heavenly Father cannot die ; 

On Him our souls depend ; 
We sleep and wake beneath His eye — 
He loves us to the end. 

5 He gave us being, gave us breath ; 

We feel His constant care ; 
We're His through life, we're His in death, 
His we for ever are. 

6 He to His house, not made with hands, 

Invites us while we roam, 
And at the door our Saviour stands 
To bid us welcome home. 

PART II. 

1 What doth the Lord, on our poor part. 
Require us to resign ? 
" My son," saith He, " give Me thy heart'' 
" My daughter ! give Me thine." 

8 Let us on this great jubilee, 

Answer, " Thy will be done ; 
We give up all our hearts to Thee . 
Each child now brings Thee one. 

9 ' ' Take them, and fill them with Thy love— 

Fill till they overflow 
With praise to Thee in heaven above, 
And prayer for all below. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 339 

10 " May every heart on earth's wide face, 
Of child or man, be given 
To Christ, where'er His Word of Grrace 
Is sounded under heaven ! " 



HYMN CCCXIX. 

Be Clothed with Humility. — I. Peter, v. 5. 

The bird that soars on highest wing, 
Builds on the ground her lowly nest ; 

And she that doth most sweetly sing, 
Sings in the shade when all things rest : 

In lark and nightingale we see 

What honour hath humility. 

When Mary chose the " better part," 
She meekly sat at Jesus' feet : 

And Lydia's gently-open'd heart 

Was made for G-od's own temple meet ; 

Fairest and best adorned is she. 

Whose clothing is humility. 

The saint that wears heaven's brightesi 
crown, 

In deepest adoration bends ; 
The weight of glory bows him down, 

Then most, when most his soul ascends ; 
Nearest the throne itself must be 
The footstool of humility. 



340 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCCXX. 
Prayer for Spiritual LigTit^ Holiness^ and Peace. 

1 GoDj o'er all supremely bless'd, 
God, in Christ made manifest, 
God, the Spirit, one in three ; 
Make Thy children one with Thee. 

2 Let the glory of Thy face 
Let the riches of Thy grace, 
Let Thine influence benign, 
Sanctify and seal us Thine. 

3 Thou art power, and love, and light, 
By that threefold cord unite 

All our schools, with large increase, 
In Thy covenant of peace. 

4 Then the living, year by year. 
Shall recruit our numbers here, 
And our dying friends supply 
Fresh accessions to the sky. 

5 Till, at mortal life's last stage, 
Time himself shall die of age. 
Death, dethroned, lay down his head 
In that grave where lay his dead. 

6 Thence may we, in that dread hour. 
Rescued from the tyrant's power, 
With thy saints arise, and sing 
Christ, Death's Conqueror, Christ Our 

King. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 341 



HYMN CCCXXI. 

God the Source of Natural and Spiritual Light. 
(For Sunday School Teachers.) 

1 God said, " Let there be light ! " 

And light sprang forth, new born ; 
He spake, 'twas done, — primeval night 
Brake into glorious morn. 

2 Who then shall dare to say, 

" Let there be darkness " — none 
But ravening wolves that hate the day, 
And owls that fear the sun. 

3 Stars, from the solar fount, 

Their borrowed lustre draw ; 
Moses came radiant from the mount 
To teach God's holy law. 

4 Warm from* the throne of grace. 

Where we have learnt His will ; 
When we go forth, may every face 
Express His image still. 

5 Light in the Lord are we. 

While by His truth we stand, 
Beflecting beams of Deity, 
Like stars in His right hand. 

6 So shall our schools be found 

As gardens of the Lord, 
And fruits of holiness abound, 
Where'er we plant the Word. 



342 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCCXXII. 

For a Sunday School Meeting at Whitsuntide. 

1 With heart and soul, with mind and might, 

In many a glad and grateful throng, 
The aged and the young unite 
To sing their Pentecostal song. 

2 This day brings sweet remembrances 

Of hallow'd seasons gone before, 
And pledges greater things than these, 
To schools and teachers, still in store. 

3 Thus every year bequeaths one day 

Of special blessings to record ; 
With dear companions by the way. 
While following on to know the Lord. 

4 A gathering here on pilgrimage 

Kefreshes thousands in their course ; 
A field-day here gives those who wage 
War with the world, redoubled force. 

5 Among the annals of the past. 

This happiest day let us enrol. 
And year by year, while life shall last. 
Inscribe a happier on the scroll. 

6 Can such a consummation be ? — 

This day is ours, — tJie only one ; 
To spend it for eternity 

Will be the good work well begun. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 343 

HYMN CCCXXIII. 

Unity in FaitJi^ Hope^ and Feeling. 

1 Around the throne of grace we meet, 

In Pentecostal bands, 
With Christian love each other greet, 
Andjoin our hearts and hands. 

2 Now all as one, and one as all. 

Faith, feelings, hopes the same. 
On our Lord Jesus Christ we call, 
And glorify His name. 

3 At once upon ten thousand flowers. 

The morning sunbeams strike. 
Millions of blades of grass — Spring showers 
Baptize from heaven alike. 

4 So may the Sun of Kighteousness 

On our assembly shine, 
And showers of consolation bless 
Our souls with peace divine. 

5 Hence, when we to our homes return, 

Rejoicing let us say, 
" Did not our hearts within us burn, 
While Christ went all our way ? " 



334 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCCXIV. 

The Happiness of those who wtilk, with Christ. 

1 Happy the child, who early makes 

The path of duty his delight, 
The way of wickedness forsakes, 
And v\falks as in his Maker's sight. 

2 Happy the youth, whose soul hath found 

Pardon and favour with the Lord ; 
True riches shall to him abound. 
True pleasures spring from God's 
word. 

3 Happy the man, who trusts in Thee, 

Christ, our Kedeemer, strong to save, 
Thy love through life his bliss shall be, 
In death his hope beyond the grave. 

4 Thrice happy they, who thus are taught 

To seek salvation here below. 
And young or old, determined naught, 
Save Jesus crucified, to know. 



HYMN CCCXY. 

The Souls of Children ransomed ly the Death of Christ 

1 Lord Jesus Christ, the children's Friend, 
On us lift up Thy gracious hands, 
And from Thy holy temple send 
Blessings on our united bands. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 335 

2 How precious in Thy Father's sight 

Were children's souls, when Thee He gave, 
His only Son, His heart's delight, 

From hell to heaven those souls to save ! 

3 What love to them, what love was Thine, 

Meek Lamb of God, when Thou didst give 
Thy soul, a sacrifice divine. 

Dying Thyself that they might live ! 

4 Nor less the Holy Spirit's grace, 

When by His light He Thee reveals, 
As though they saw Thee face to face, 
And them as heirs of glory seals. 

5 Are children's souls of such high price ? 

With grief and gladness may we see. 
How sad their loss in Paradise, 
How great their gain on Calvary. 

6 Our own no longer, Thine thy are, 

In mercy bind them to Thy Cross ; 
Safe only from the tempter there, 
From second death and endless loss. 



HYMN CCCXVI. 

Poor Children praying for Grace. 

1 O Lord our God, Thy light and truth 
To us Thy children send, 
hat we may serve Thee in our youth. 
And love Thee to the end. 



336 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

2 By nature sinful, weak, and blind. 

The downward path we trod. 
Our wandering heart and wayward mind 
Were enemies to God. 

3 But friends and guardian s now, through grace, 

Our heedless steps restrain, 
They teach us, Lord, to seek Thy face. 
Which none shall seek in vain. 

4 Hence to the hills we lift our eyes. 

From which salvation springs ; 
Sun of Kighteousness, arise. 
With healing in Thy wings ! 

5 Arise, — and o'er this vale of tears, 

Shine into perfect day, 
Still heavenward, through progressive years, 
Pointing the Christian's way. 



HYMN CCCXYII. 

Youth resolving hy Voids and Prayer to serve the Lord. 

1 Youth, health, and strength are ours to-day. 

And years to come in prospect lie ; 
But youth, health, strength, must soon decay, 
This year — this moment, we may die. 

2 Brought to the altar of the Lord, 

Eternal enmity, we now 
To sin and Satan would record ; 
To Christ eternal homage vow. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 337 

3 Lord, to Thyself our spirits draw, 

Bind our affections with Thy love ; 
Incline our hearts to keep Thy law, 
And fix our hopes on things above. 

4 The fragrance, dew, and flower of youth, i 

The health and strength of Nature's primCj 
We here present ; — Oh ! Thine in truth 
Be all our talents, all our time. 

5 Heavenward our course on earth be bent, 

Where'er our future lot is cast ; 
And life, thus well and wisely spent, 
Be j)ure and holy to the last. 



HYMN CCCXVIII. 

The Heart given to God in aclcnowledgment of His 
rs. 



PART I. 

1 Our parents, brothers, sisters, friends, 

We love and hold most dear ; 
For these our Heavenly Father sends 
To make us happy here. 

2 They feed, they clothe, supply our wants, 

And bless us while they live ; 
But God, our Heavenly Father, grants 
Blessings they cannot give. 

3 We call them ours a little while — 

Then one by one departs, 
15 



338 ORIGINAL HYMIiS. 

And we no longer see their smile 
That won our youthful hearts. 

4 Our Heavenly Father cannot die ; 

On Him our souls depend ; 
We sleep and wake beneath His eye — 
He loves us to the end. 

5 He gave us being, gave us breath ; 

We feel His constant care ; 
We're His through life, we're His in death, 
His we for ever are. 

6 He to His house, not made with hands, 

Invites us while we roam, 
And at the door our Saviour stands 
To bid us welcome home. 

PART II. 

7 What doth the Lord, on our poor part, 

Kequire us to resign ? 
" My son,'' saith He, '' give Me thy heart" 
" My daughter ! give Me thine." 

8 Let us on this great jubilee. 

Answer, " Thy will be done ; 
We give up all our hearts to Thee . 
Each child now brings Thee one. 

9 ' '• Take them, and fill them with Thy love— 

Fill till they overflow 
With praise to Thee in heaven above, 
And prayer for all below. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 339 

10 " May every heart on earth's wide face, 
Of child or man, be given 
To Christ, where'er His Word of Grace 
Is sounded under heaven ! " 



HYMN CCCXIX. 

Be Clothed with Humility. — I. Peter, v. 5. 

The bird that soars on highest wing, 
Builds on the ground her lowly nest ; 

And she that doth most sweetly sing, 
Sings in the shade when all things rest : 

In lark and nightingale we see 

What honour hath humility. 

When Mary chose the " better part," 
She meekly sat at Jesus' feet : 

And Lydia's gently-open'd heart 

Was made for G-od's own temple meet ; 

Fairest and best adorned is she, 

Whose clothing is humility. 

The saint that wears heaven's brightest 
crown. 

In deepest adoration bends ; 
The weight of glory bows him down. 

Then most, when most his soul ascends ; 
Nearest the throne itself must be 
The footstool of humility. 



340 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCCXX. 

Prayer for Spiritual Light, Holiness, and Peace. 

1 God, o'er all supremely bless'd, 
God, in Christ made manifest, 
God, the Spirit, one in three ; 
Make Thy children one with Thee. 

2 Let the glory of Thy face 
Let the riches of Thy grace, 
Let Thine influence benign. 
Sanctify and seal us Thine. 

3 Thou art power, and love, and light, 
By that threefold cord unite 

All our schools, with large increase, 
In Thy covenant of peace. 

4 Then the living, year by year. 
Shall recruit our numbers here, 
And our dying friends supply 
Fresh accessions to the sky. 

5 Till, at mortal life's last stage, 
Time himself shall die of age. 
Death, dethroned, lay down his head 
In that grave where lay his dead. 

6 Thence may we, in that dread hour. 
Rescued from the tyrant's power. 
With thy saints arise, and sing 
Christ, Death's Conqueror, Christ Our 

King. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 341 



HYMN CCCXXI. 

God the Source of Natural and Spiritual Light. 
(For Sunday School Teachers.) 

1 God said, " Let there be light ! " 

And hght sprang forth, new born ; 
He spake, 'twas done, — primeval night 
Brake into glorious morn. 

2 Who then shall dare to say, 

^' Let there be darkness " — none 
But ravening wolves that hate the day, 
And owls that fear the sun. 

3 Stars, from the solar fount. 

Their borrowed lustre draw ; 
Moses came radiant from the mount 
To teach God's holy law. 

4 Warm from' the throne of grace. 

Where we have learnt His will ; 
When we go forth, may every face 
Express His image still. 

5 Light in the Lord are we. 

While by His truth we stand, 
Beflecting beams of Deity, 
Like stars in His right hand. 

6 So shall our schools be found 

As gardens of the Lord, 
And fruits of holiness abound. 
Where'er we plant the Word. 



342 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCCXXII. 

For a Sunday School Meeting at Whitsuntide. 

1 With heart and soul, with mind and might, 

In many a glad and grateful throng, 
The aged and the young unite 
To sing their Pentecostal song. 

2 This day brings sweet remembrances 

Of hallow'd seasons gone before. 
And pledges greater things than these, 
To schools and teachers, still in store. 

3 Thus every year bequeaths one day 

Of special blessings to record ; 
With dear companions by the way. 
While following on to know the Lord. 

4 A gathering here on pilgrimage 

Kefreshes thousands in their course ; 
A field-day here gives those who wage 
War with the world, redoubled force. 

5 Among the annals of the past. 

This happiest day let us enrol. 
And year by year, while life shall last. 
Inscribe a happier on the scroll. 

6 Can such a consummation be ? — 

This day is ours, — the only one ; 
To spend it for eternity 

Will be the good work well begun. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 343 

HYMN CCOXXIII. 

Unity in Fait\ Hope^ and Feeling, 

1 Around the throne of grace we meet, 

In Pentecostal bands, 
With Christian love each other greet, 
And.join our hearts and hands. 

2 Now all as one, and one as all. 

Faith, feelings, hopes the same. 
On our Lord Jesus Christ we call, 
And glorify His name. 

3 At once upon ten thousand flowers, 

The morning sunbeams strike. 
Millions of blades of grass — Spring showers 
Baptize from heaven alike. 

4 So may the Sun of Kighteousness 

On our assembly shine, 
And showers of consolation bless 
Our souls with peace divine. 

5 Hence, when we to our homes return, 

Kejoicing let us say, 
*^ Did not our hearts within us burn, 
While Christ went all our way ? " 



344 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCCXXIY. 

Sabbath School Union. 

1 On earth we meet again below ; 

But shall we ever meet above, 
And all our souls together flow 
In one eternal tide of love ? 

2 Some meet who never met before ; 

We bid them welcome on their way : 
And some may part to join no more 
The children's Whitsuntide array. 

3 While the whole world before us lies, 

May each, whatever our pilgrim-path. 
Be truly taught, and timely wise 

To follow peace, and flee from wrath :— 

4 That wrath, which disobedience brought 

On Adam's sin-born progeny ; 
That peace, which our Eedeemer bought, 
With His own blood, upon the tree. 

5 So be this temple to the Lord, 

This Sabbath Union, which we build 
Of living stones, upon His Word, 
With His perpetual presence fill'd. 

6 Death-partings, then, from earth shall be 

Life-meetings in that world above, 
Where life is immortality, — 
An immortality of love. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 345 

HYMN CCCXXV. 

Children singing Hosanna to GTirist. 

1 Hosanna be the children's song, 

To Christ, the children's King ; 
His praise, to whom their souls belong, 
Let all the children sing. 

2 From little ones to Jesus brought, 

Hosannas now be heard ; 
Let infants at the breast be taught 
To lisp that lovely word. 

3 Hosanna here, in joyful bands. 

Maidens and youths proclaim, 
And hail with voices, hearts, and hands, 
The Son of David's name. 

4 Hosanna, sound from hill to hill, 

And spread from plain to plain ; 
While louder, sweeter, clearer still, 
Woods echo to the strain. 

5 Hosanna, on the wings of light, 

O'er earth and ocean fly ; 
Till morn to eve, and noon to night, 
And heaven to earth reply. 

6 The city to the country call ; 

Let realm with realm accord ; 
And this their watchword one and all ; 
Hosanna — praise the Lord ! 



346 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

7 Hosanna, then, our song shall be ; 
Hosanna to our King ; 
This is the children's jubilee ; 
Let all the children sing. 



HYMN CCCXXVI. 

Children recalling Ghrisfs Bxamjyle and Sis Love. 

1 When Jesus left His Father's throne, 

He chose an humble birth ; 
Like us, unhonour'd and unknown, 
He came to dwell on earth. 

2 Like Him, may w^e be found below 

In Wisdom's paths of peace ! 
Like Him, in grace and knowledge grow, 
As years and strength increase. 

3 Jesus pass'd by the rich and great. 

For men of low degree ; 
He sanctified our parents' state, 
For poor, like them, was He. 

4 Sweet were His words, and kind His look, 

When mothers round Him press'd ; 
Their infants in His arms He took, 
And on His bosom bless'd. 

5 Safe from the world's alluring harms, 

Beneath His watchful eye, 
Thus in the circle of His arms, 
May we for ever lie. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 347 

6 When Jesus into Salem rode, 

The children sang around ; 
For joy they pluck'd the palms, and strow'd. 
Their garments on the ground. 

7 Hosanna, our glad voices raise, 

Hosanna to our King ; 
Should we forget our Saviour's praise. 
The stones themselves would sing. 

8 For we have learn'd to love His Name : 

That Name divinely sweet. 
May every pulse through life proclaim, 
And our last breath repeat. 



HYMN CCCXXVII. 

Children achioioledging the Providence and Goodness 
of God. 

[ The children's angels always view 
Their Heavenly Father's face ; 
His joyful messengers and true. 
In Prpvidence and Grace : — 

5 To guard our feeble steps ; to keep 
From harm our living breath, 
Watch o'er our senses while we sleep, 
And waft us home in death. 

I But not to angels' care alone 
Poor children are consign'd ; 
To God Himself our wants are known, 
The Lord to us is kind. 



348 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

4 Yes ; — every comfort here below, 

And every hope above ; 
All that we have and are, we owe 
To His unfailing love. 

5 Then let us act as in His sight, 

And on our humble way 

Walk in the liberty of light, 

As children of the day. 

6 Young though we be and in the prime 

Of life's unfolding powers, 
Of all the moments of our time. 
This, only this is oui"s. 

7 We seize it. Lord, before 'tis past ; 

We yield ourselves to Thee ; 
Thine be our earliest years, our last, 
And our eternity. 



HYMN CCCXXYIII. 

Children nuinbering their Day%. 

The pure and peaceful mind. 
The meek and lowly heart. 

The patient will to Thine resigned 
God of all power impart. 

Young though in years we be, 
In health and spirits strong ; 

What is the life of man to Thee ? 
The longest is not long. 



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3 A thousand years, a day, 

Are equal in Thy sight ; 
Our generations pass away, 
Like watches of the night. 

4 Lord, make us timely wise 

To know our call of grace ; 
And with the moment, as it flies, 
Eun our appointed race : 

5 Still keep the end in view. 

Tarry nor turn aside, 
Perils, allurements, bonds break through, 
Most faithful when most tried ! 

6 Thus, till we reach the goal. 

All else we count but loss ; 
Nor till we gain the prize, — our soul, — 
Grow weary of the Cross. 



HYMN CCCXXIX. 

The Government of the Tongue. 

1 The tongue, the tongue, with all its powers, 
Is Thine Avho made it. Thine, not ours ; 
Lord, teach us early to controul. 

That tameless tell-tale of the soul. 

2 'Twas with the tongue, the serpent's wile 
Did Eve's simplicity beguile ; 

'Twas with the tongue fairn Adam tried. 
His guilt behind her sin to hide. 



350 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

3 The tongue's a sword, a two-edged sword, 
To kill or quicken with a word ; 

A key to ope and shut the heart, 
To lock out knowledge or impart. 

4 With it God's glory we proclaim. 
With it blaspheme His holy Name ; 
Here good and evil strangely meet, 
Hence bitter waters flow with sweet. 

5 Lord, such confusion should not be ; 
Thou art all truth, all equity ; 

Pure from Thine hand the creature sprung, 
But lost Thine image through the tongue. 

6 Through it that image be restored ; 

Let tongues of fire that preach Thy Word, 
Call, by Thy Holy Spirit's might, 
Souls out of darkness into light. 

7 Be this our lot :— may heart and tongue 
To heavenly harmony be strung. 

Till every tone Thy love record. 

And every pulse j)raise Thee the Lokd. 



HYMN CCCXXX. 

Prayer for Preservation from sinful Words. 

With lawless lips, unbridled tongue, 
In language, wanton or profane. 

Never, good Lord, from us be wrung 
A phrase to take Thy Name in vain. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 351 

2 For every idle word to Thee, 

As each must give a strict account. 

Well might we tremble, could we see. 

Young as we are, the past amount. 

3 Since, not by blasphemy alone, 

When sinners curse Thee to Thy face, 
A thought, a sign, a look, a tone. 
May cast upon Thy Name disgrace. 

4 Thy name they also desecrate, 

Wlto read Thy Word, who pray, and 
praise. 
Yet not on Thee in spirit wait, 
Nor honour Thee in all their ways. 

5 Thy Name ! — by our mouth, that word 

Be never spoken, — in our heart 
Conceived, — or by our ear be heard, 

Without remembering who Thou art : — 

6 God, from eternity the same. 

For ever blessing, ever blest ; 
Holy and reverend is Thy Name, 
Why is it not by all confest ? 

7 Now, fire from heaven. Thy fire of love, 

To scanctify our speech be sent. 
Till, gather'd to the Church above, 
Pure love shall be our element. 



352 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCCXXXI. 

Scriptural Examples of Piety andOhedience in the Young. 

1 Isaac was ransom'd when he lay 

Upon the altar bound ; 
Moses, an infant cast away, 
Pharaoh's own daughter found. 

2 Joseph, by his false brethren sold, 

God raised above them all ; 
To Hannah's child, the Lord foretold, 
How Eli's house must fall. 

3 David the bear and lion slew 

And o'er Gath's champion trod ; 
Josiah, from his boyhood, knew 
His father David's God. 

4 To good Naomi gentle Ruth 

Clave with a daughter's soul ; 
A little maid reveal'd the truth. 
Whence Naaman was made whole. 

5 Children are thus Jehovah's care ; 

Thus youth may seek His face ; 

Since His own Son He did not spare, 

With Him He gives all grace : 

6 Grace, like the young of whom we read, 

Early in Him to trust ; 
A Friend in need, a Friend indeed, 
As merciful as just. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 353 

7 Lord, while like them our course we run, 
Be Thou to us that Friend, 
And in the footsteps of Thy Son, 
Conduct us to the end. 



HYMN CCCXXXII. 

The Christian Sisterhood. 

On the Centenary Celebration of their Establishment, 
in 1752. 

1 On His pilgrimage of woe. 
When our Saviour walk'd below, 
He, whose voice awoke the dead, 
Had not where to lay His head. 

2 Yet, on one sweet hill of rest, 
Oft He loved to be a guest, 
Where two sister-handmaids dwelt. 
In whose home, at home He felt. 

3 FuLNECK-HiLL to-day shall be 
Our delightful Bethany ; 

Dwell, Lord Jesus, where we dwell, 
God ivith us, Lmnanuel ! 

4 In our hearts, do Thou appear, 
Let our spirits feel Thee here, 
Till, caird hence by Thee, in love. 
To Thy Bethany above. 



354 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCCXXXIII. 

On the Death of a Sunday School Teacher. 

1 Weep, little children, weep, 

A fattier gone before ; 
For those who loved to see his face^ 
Shall see his face no more. 

2 Yet all whom once he taught 

To sit at Jesus' feet, 
And seek the blessedness he sought, 
May him in glory meet. 

3 Mourn, youths and maidens, mourn, 

Whom like a flock he led 
To living streams from Christ the rock, 
And in green pastures fed. 

4 Walk in his footsteps here, 

So, in the heavenly fold, 
When the chief Shepherd shall. appear. 
Be you with Him enrolled. 

5 Grieve, fellow teachers, grieve ; 

With you he bore the Cross, 
And gladly, for a crown of life, 
Accounted all things loss. 

6 Think with what power he spake, 

While tears his words outran. 
As though his very heart would break 
With love to God and man. 



OKIGINAL HYMNS. 355 

7 His eye, his voice, his hand. 

Still marshal you along ; 
A fearless, firm, united band. 
Quit you like men, — be strong ! 

8 Strong in the Lord was he. 

And valiant for the truth ; 
Go, train your little ones to be, 
Christ's soldiers from their youth. 



HYMN CCCXXXIV. 

Children praising God. 

1 Glory to the Father give, 
God in whom we move and live. 
Children's prayers He deigns to hear, 
Children's songs delight His ear. 

2 Glory to the Son we bring, 

Christ, our Prophet, Priest, and King ; 
Children raise your sweetest strain 
To the Lamb, for He was slain. 

3 Glory to the Holy Ghost ; 
Be this day a Pentecost ; 
Children's minds may He inspire. 
Touch their tongues with holy fire. 

4 Glory in the highest be 
To the blessed Trinity, 
For the gospel from above, 

For the word, that " God is love." 



356 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMINT CCCXXXY. 

Christian confidence and stability. 

1 I BUILD my house upon a roc k, — 

Faith's strong foundation firm and sure, 
My fix'd abode the heaviest shock 
Of time and tempest to endure. 

2 Not small, nor large, not low, nor high, 

Midway it stands upon the steep. 

Beneath the storm-mark of the sky, 

Above the flood-work of the deep. 

3 And here I humbly wait whilst He 

Who pluck'd me from the lowest hell, 
Prepares a heavenly house for me, 

Then calls me home with Him to dwell. 



HYMN CCCXXXYI. 

Old and Young 2^ raising Jesus together. 

COME, let us raise 

Our tribute of j^ng ; 
Thanksgiving and praise 

To Jesus belong ; — 
He came from above 

Our bliss to begin, 
Make perfect in love. 

And free us from sin. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 357 

The old and the young, 

His people by choice, 
With heart, soul, and tongue, 

In Him may rejoice : — 
We meet Him to-day 

Triumphantly crown'd, 
And welcome His way. 

In chorus around. 

Hosanna ! — that word 

To children is dear ; 
To Jesus our Lord, 

We'll echo it here ; — 
Let worldlings despise. 

And enemies rail, 
Hosannas shaU rise, 

Hosannas prevail. 

God's temple shall ring, 

Wliile under His eye, 
Hosanna we sing. 

For Jesus draws nigh : 
Hosanna ! our breath 

Through life shall proclaim ; 
Hosanna ! in death, — 

In glory, the same ! 



358 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCCXXXVII. 

For a Sunday School Anniversary. 

1 The brightest morning of the year 

Is that which brings the day, 
When Sunday Schools assemble here, 
'Their joyful vows to pay. 

2 The loveliest scene that eyes behold. 

Is band succeeding band, 
Till, fairly form'd with flags unroll'd. 
The children's legions stand. 

3 The sweetest harmony that floats. 

Is, when, o'er hill and dale, 
From yonder height, their mingling notes 
With rapture swell the gale. 

4 The purest bliss that life can know, 

Devoid of fear and guile. 
Is, when at once all bosoms glow, 
All faces wear one smile. 

5 Nor beautiful on earth alone 

This spectacle of love. 
Their angels round their Father's throne 
Bend o'er it from above. 

6 Great God ! fulfill our hearts' desire ; 

Make every soul sincere. 
That, in Thy sight, this youthful choir 
May he what they appear. 



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ORIGINAL HYMNS. 359 

HYMN CCCXXXYIIL 

Separation on earth — Reunion in heaven. 

Friend after friend departs : 

Who hath not lost a friend ? 
There is no union here of hearts, 

Tliat finds not here an end : 
Were this frail world our only rest, 
Living or dying, none were hlest. 

Beyond the flight of time. 

Beyond this vale of death. 
There surely is some blessed clime. 

Where life is not a breath ; 
Nor life's affections transient fire. 
Whose sparks fly upward to expire ! 

There is a world above. 

Where parting is unknown ; 
A whole eternity of love, 

Form'd for the good alone ; 
And faith beholds the dying here, 
Translated to that happier sphere. 

Thus star by star declines, 

Till all are pass'd away, 
As morning high and higher shines 

To pure and perfect day ; 
Nor sink those stars in empty night, — 
They hide themselves in heaven's own light. 



360 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCCXXXIX. 

For Wachley Church Schools.^ 

1 Come from your dwellings, girls and boys, 

Come in your neat though plain array ; 
From work and pastime, tools and toys, 
Come to the children's holy day. 

2 Come from the valley and the hills, 

Bound Wadsley Church, by WharnclifFe 
woods : 
Come from the forges, tilts, and mills 
On Kivelin, Dun, and Loxley floods. 

3 We gladly answer, while we throng 

Through fields and lanes — We come, we 
come, 
To sing the children's sweetest song, — 
Stones might cry out if we were dumb. 

4 Hosanna to our Saviour King, 

Who came from heaven for us to die ; 
Hosanna let the moorlands ring, 
Hosanna all their rocks reply. 

5 At church, in school, this day, good Lord ! 

With reverence and with godly fear, 
Teach us to hearken to Thy word. 
And then to practise what we hear. 

* Wadslo}', and the other places mentioned in the second 
verse of this Hymn, are situate from four to eight miles 
N. "W. of Sheffield, find include the picturesque scenery of 
the old ballad— r" The Dragon of Wantlej," and several 
streams of local celebrity. 



OKIGINAL HYMNS. 361 

Our weakness help, our sins forgive, 
Confirm our faith, our love increase ; 

That we may serve Thee while we hve 
And when we die, depart in Peace. 



HYMN CCCXL. 

For the Sunday-School Jubilee^ the Birthday of Robert 
Bailees^ the Founder of Sunday Schools^ Sept, 14^^, 1831. 

I. 

1 Let songs of praise arise ; 

Teachers, your tribute bring ; 
Let hallelujahs fill the skies. 
Earth with hosannas ring. 

2 Once, by the river-side, 

A little fountain rose ; 
Now, like the Severn's sea-ward tide, 
Kound the broad world it flows. 

3 One heaven-directed mind 

ReveaFd the simple plan : 
Now, in the glorious task combined,. 
Ten thousand are one man. 

4 Though poor and mean the place. 

And small the band he taught : 
Millions since then have shared the grace ; 
Behold what GrOD hath wrought. 

5 Through Albion's ocean-isles, 

In near and distant lands. 
Where'er the Christian Sabbath smiles, 
The Sabbath School-house stands. 
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362 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

6 Heralds of peace proclaim 
The year of jubilee ; 
Now in the Babe of Bethlehem's Name, 
Bid every child go free. 



HYMN CCCXLI. 

For the Sunday School Juhilee^ Septemler 14i5^, 1831. 
III. 

1 Love is the theme of saints above ; 

Love be the theme of saints below : 
Love is of GrOD, for GtOd is Love ; 
With love let every bosom glow : — 

2 Love, stronger than the grasp of Death, 

Love that rejoices o'er the grave, 
Love to the Author of our breath, 

Love to His Son, who came to save ; — 

3 Love to the Spirit of all grace, 

Love to the Scri^Dtures of all truth. 
Love to our whole apostate race, 
Love to the aged, love to youth ; — 

4 Love to each other — soul and mind. 

And heart and hand, with full accord^ 
In one sweet covenant combined, 
To live and die unto the Lord. 

5 Christ's little flock we then shall feed. 

The lambs we in our arms shall bear, 
Keclaim the lost, the feeble lead. 

And watch o'er all in faith and prayer. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 363 

Thus through our isle, on all our bands, 
The beauty of the Lord shall be ; 

And Britain, glory of all lands. 

Plant Sabbath schools from sea to sea. 



HYMN CCCXLII. 

For an Infant School. 

" Eli perceived that the Lord had called the child." — 
I. Sam. iii. 8. 

1 Sun, moon and stars, by day and night, 
At God's commandment, give us light. 
And when we wake, and while we sleep. 
Their watch, like guardian angels, keep. 

2 The bright blue sky above our head. 
The soft green earth on which we tread, 

' The ocean rolling round the land. 
Were made by God's almighty hand. 

3 Sweet flowers that hill and dale adorn. 
Fair fruit-trees, fields of grass and corn. 
The clouds that rise, the showers that fall. 
The winds that blow — God sends them all. 

4 The beasts that graze with downward eye, 
The birds that perch, and sing, and fly. 
The fishes swimming in the sea, 

God's creatures are as well as we. 

5 But us He form'd for better things ; — 
As servants of the King of kings. 
With lifted hands, and open face. 
And thankful hearts, to seek his grace. 



364 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

6 Thus God loved man, and more than thus-,- 
He sent his Son to die for us, 

And now invites us, when we die, 
To come and Hve with Him on high 

7 But we must live to Him below. 

For none but such to heaven will go ; — 
Lord Jesus, hear our humble prayer, 
And lead the httle children there. 



HYMN CCCXLIII. 

For the CMldren of National^ British or Sunday Schools. 

1 Thy throne, God, in righteousness, 

For ever shall endure ; 
We bow before it ; deign to bless 
The children of the poor. 

2 Thy wisdom fix'd our lowly birth, 

Yet we Thy goodness share ; 
Still make us while we dwell on earth. 
The children of Thy care. 

3 Strangers to Thee, though Thine by name. 

We hear Thy welcome voice. 
And gathered from the world, became 
The children of Thy choice. 

4 Thou art our Shepherd ; — glorious God, 

Thy little flock behold ; 
And guide us by Thy staff and rod, — 
The children of Thy fold. 



OBIGINAL HYMNS. 365 

5 We praise Thy Name that we were brought 

To this dehghtful place, 
Where we are watch' d, and warn'd, and 
taught, — 
The children of Thy grace. 

6 may our friends, Thy servants here, 

Meet all our souls above. 
And they and we in heaven appear. 
The children of Thy love ! 



HYMN CCCXLIY. 

Hymn for the British Orphan Asylum. 

1 Thou Father of the fatherless^ 

A band of orphans see. 
And from Thy throne of glory bless, 
Our little family : — 

2 A httle family, who share 

No human parents' love ; 
And yet for whom Thou wilt prepare 
A house and home above : — 

3 A home above, if train'd up here. 

In Wisdom's paths to go. 
We travel heavenward in Thy fear, 
From this sweet home below : — 

4 This home below, where we have found 

. Refuge in time of need. 
And meet upon its holy ground. 
Friends, who are friends indeed. 



366 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

5 For friends indeed to us are they, 

Who, for our Saviour's sake, 
Have sought us out, like lambs astray, 
Their bounty to partake : 

6 Thine is their bounty, — theirs not less, 

Though Thine what each imparts. 
When, to relieve the fatherless, 
Thv love constrains their hearts. 



HYMN CCCXLV. 

For the Children in a Charity School. 

While saints and angels, glorious King, 
Day without night Thy praises sing ; 
Thou wilt not humbler strains despise, 
The songs of children reach the skies. 

Amidst the whole creation's cares, 
The meanest worm Thy bounty shares ; 
Thine eyes the depths of ocean see. 
The grave itself hides not from Thee. 

While want and hardships were our lot, 
Thou knew'st us, though we knew Thee 

not ; 
Now we adore Thine hand that sends. 
Our earthly comforts, home, and friends. 

With these Thy heavenly gifts afford, 
Thy Son, Thy Spirit, and Thy Word :— 
Thy Word to teach our wayward youth. 
Thy pure commandments, God of truth ! — 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 367 

5 Thy Spirit to dispel the night 

Of sin and error, God of light ! — 
Thy Son, to raise our minds above 
This world's affections, God of love ! 

6 For all the good Thy grace imparts. 
What shall we give Thee ? — take our hearts : 
seal them by Thy power divine, 

In life, in death, for ever Thine. 



HYMN CCCXLYI. 

For Ragged Schools. 

1 The poorest of the poor are we, 
But precious are our souls to Thee, 
Whom, though Thou art the Lord of all. 
Our Heavenly Father we may call. 

2 If meanly clad, and sparely fed. 
Give us this day our daily bread. 
For all that live, and move, and are, 
In Providence, Thy bounty share. 

3 To Thee, when the young ravens cry. 
Thy hands their humble wants supply ; 
Alike on Thee, their unknown Friend, 
The lion and the lamb depend. 

4 Thine air, Thy sunshine, dews, and showers, 
In season make the lily's flowers 

More beautiful to look upon, 
Than on his throne. King Solomon. 



368 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

5 The widow, old and desolate ; 
The orphan in his low estate ; 
The slave, the outcast of mankind, 
Thee their almighty Helper, find. 

6 All times, and every where. Thine eye 
Looks down upon us from the sky ; 
Could we look up, by light divine. 
Ours might be ever fix'd on Thine. 

7 While every word we speak. Thine ear 
Through all creation's sounds can hear, 
By ours, if open'd to Thy Word, 

Thy voice from heaven would here be heard. 

8 Moment on moment, breath by breath, 
Our pilgrim life draws nearer death : 
Each breath, each moment, make us be 
More meet for immortality. 

9 God, most merciful and just, 
Shall we not put in Thee our trust ? 
In grief and pain, to calm our fears. 
Comfort our hearts, and wipe our tears. 



HYMN CCCXLYII. 

Poor Children praying f 07' themselves mid their bene- 
factors. 

1 God over all, the sun by day 

Keveals Thy glory in His light ; 
The moon and stars Thy voice obey. 

And mark Thy presence through the night. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 369 

2 God over all, the earth that yields 

Her flowers and fruits at Thy command, 
From mountains, rivers, woods, and fields, 
Pours the rich bounties of Thy hand. 

3 To us, the poorest of the poor. 

High as Thou art Thy care descends ; 
Thy mercies are for ever sure. 

Thou art our Father, these our friends. 

4 Are these our friends ? — Thou God of grace, 

Keward their love a thousand fold ; 
And may they ever in Thy face, 

Their best, their dearest friend behold. 

5 Art Thou our Father ? — we confess, 

With grief and shame our sin and guilt ; 
turn from our unrighteousness. 

Look on Thy Son, — His blood was spilt. 

6 He bore the chastening of Thy rod. 

That we might by His stripes be heal'd ; 
He died for us, the Lamb of God ! 
He rose, and our redemption seal'd. 

7 And shall we, dare we, can we still 

Resist Thy fear. Thy love despise ? 
No, take us, — soul, affection, will — 
A free and living sacrifice. 



370 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCCXLVIII. 

For Christian Adult Schools. Bristol, 1813. 

1 Lord ! are there eyes that see the sun, 

And gaze with joy on Nature's face, 
Yet while through all Thy works they run, 
Thy glorious Godhead never trace ? 

2 Lord ! are there eyes, to which Thy Book 

No hidden mystery reveals ? 
give them power thereon to look ; 
"Lion of Judah ! break the seals."* 

3 There, with new sight, may they behold 

Thy counsels, since the world began, 
Like morning's gradual beams, unfold 
The wonders of Thy love to man : — 

4 For whom, a rebel from his birth, 

Thine only Son Thou didst not spare ; 
The Lord from heaven came down to earthy 
His guilt and punishment to bear. 

5 Thus while instruction they receive, 

Thy Spirit's inward light impart, 
Till trembling penitents believe, 
And Mercy heals the broken heart. 

6 Not eyes alone shall then rejoice 

In the rich comforts of Thy word ; 
Deaf ears shall hearken to Thy voice. 
And bless the day its sound was heard. 

* Rev. V. 5. 



OKIGINAL HYMNS. 37l 

7 TongueS; that were wont to pledge Thy 
Name 
In oaths, and cursings, change then* tone, 
Thy free salvation to proclaim, 

And make Thy loving-kindness known. 

S Bosoms, by cruel fiends possest. 

Dark dungeons of indweUing sin. 

Are temples, with Thy presence blest. 

All glorious, like the ark, within. 

9 Though earth no lovelier prospect show 
Than children walking in Thy ways ; 
And heaven no sweeter music know 
Than infant voices join'd in praise : 

10 Though sucJi, secured from early vice ; 

Watered by Thy continual care, 
Spring up like trees of Paradise, 
And fruit, in long succession, bear : 

11 Yet will the tears of transport swell. 

Our spirits' pure affection burn, 
When aged sinners, warn'd of hell. 
Though late and slow, to God return. 

12 Humbly they take the lowest seat ; 

Matrons and hoary-headed men 
Are learners at the Saviour's feet. 
Are " little children " once again. 

13 Lord ! we commit them to Thine hands. 

To Thee their new-born hopes aspire ; 
take them, keep them, — these are brands, 
Pluckt out of everlasting fire. 



372 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 



HYMN CCCXLIX. 

Children Schools Nurseries for Paradise. 

1 Our scliools are nurseries below. 
For trees of Paradise to grow, 

Till by their Saviour's training hand, 
TransjDlanted to the promised land. 

2 Myriads already, from our care, 
Once our companions flourish there, 
Yet still in fellowship all meet, 
They see His face, we kiss His feet. 

3 There's joy in heaven among the saints, 
O'er every sinoer that repents ; 

The children's angels swell that strain, 
When little ones are born again. 

4 Then be this day of sacred mirth 
A jubilee in heaven and earth ; 
Hence while our glad hosannas rise. 
High hallelujahs fill the skies. 

5 When Time hath run his latest round, 
And the last trumpet ceased to sound. 
Death and the Grave abohsh'd, — then 
Eternity shall shout, Amen ! 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 373 

HYMN CCCL. 

All Ages praising the Lord. 

Now Lord of lords and King of kings, 
Homage from all created things 
Keceive ; the Church above, beneath, 
One prayer, one song, one spirit breathe ; 
Childhood, and youth, and age that wears 
The crowning glory of gray hairs. 



HYMN CCCLL 

The Sabbath on Earth — The Sabbath in Heaven. 

1 The Sabbath of the Lord, 

The Sabbath is our day. 
For then we read and hear God's word, 
We learn to praise and pray. 

2 Ours is the Sunday school. 

Its lessons may we prize. 
And grow by every gospel rule 
Unto salvation wise. 

3 So all our lives below. 

In Wisdom's pleasant ways. 
The fruits of Sunday schools shall show, 
The bliss of Sabbath days. 

4 Lord of the Sabbath, send 

Prosperity and peace, 
Till tasks and teaching here shall end. 
Tongues fail, and knowledge cease. 



374 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

5 Then heaven itself shall be 
One Sunday school above ; 
And iindisturVd eternity 
One Sabbth day of love. 



HYMN CCCLII. 

Sunday School Union Jubilee^ 1853. 

1 The grace of Jesus Christ our Lord, 
The Father's love with sweet accord, 
The Hp\y Ghost's communion be 

Our b<^M of peace and amity. 

2 T\m is the threefold cord that binds 
The sympathies of kindred minds, 

And draws them to that Glorious Three, 
The One eternal Deity. 

^ Thus God to man Himself reveals, 
His people calls, redeems, and seals. 
Who one with Him in spirit are. 
In answer to Christ's farewell prayer. 

4 Nor time, nor place, nor life, nor death, 
Decaying strength, departing breath, 
Can loose or break that holy cord. 
Laid on them by their loving Lord. 

5 This was the very cord of love. 

Which drew Him from His throne above ; 
With it He makes Sin's prisoners free, 
And captive leads captivity. 



OKIGINAL HYMNS. 375 

Bound with this covenant to-day, 
We rest as pilgrims on our way, 
Past trials thankfully review, 
And cheerfully prepare for new. 



HYMN CCCLIIL 

Gloria Patri. 

1 Maker, Upholder, Ruler ! — Thee, 

Let all that live adore, 
Who art, and wast, and yet shalt be, 
God blessed evermore. 

2 Redeemer, Prophet, Priest, and King ! 

Appointed Judge of all ! 
Let ransom'd souls Thy triumphs sing. 
And foes before Thee fall. 

3 Spirit of life, and light, and love ! 

To us Thy gifts impart ; 
From heaven, descending Uke a dove, 
Come dwell in every heart. 

4 Thee, Father, Son, and Spirit ! Thee, 

Let heaven and earth adore ; 
Thou art. Thou wast, and Thou shalt be 
One God for evermore. 



376 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

HYMN CCCLIV. 

After Divine Service, 

1 Again our ears have heard the voice. 

At which the dead shall live ; 
may the sound our hearts rejoice, 
And strength immortal give. 

2 And have we heard the word with joy ? 

And have we felt its power ? 
To keep it be our bless'd employ, 
Till life's extremest hour. 



HYMN CCCLV. 

On leaving the House of God. 

1 Thy word, Almighty Lord, 

Where'er it enters in, 
Is sharper than a two-edged sword 
To slay the man of sin. 

2 Thy word is power and life ; 

It bids confusion cease. 
And changes envy, hatred, strife, 
To love, and joy, and peace. 

3 Then let our hearts obey 

The gospel's glorious sound. 
And all its fruits, from day to day. 
Be in us and abound. 



ORIGINAL HYMNS. 377 

DOXOLOGIES. 

I. 

All glory to the Father be, 

Coequal glory to the Son, 
And to the Holy Spmt, — Three, 

In union of the Grodhead One. 
As 'twas ere measured time begun, 

Is now, and shall for ever be. 
While self-involving ages run 

The circle of infinity. 

II. 

All glory to the Father be. 

All glory to the Son, 
All glory to the Spirit, — Three, 

In power and Godhead One. 
As 'twas ere measured time begun, 

Is now, and yet shall be. 
While never-ending ages riin 

On through eternity. 

III. 

Glory, Father ! be 

To Thee, and to Thy Son, 
And to the Holy Spirit, — Three, 

In name, — in Godhead One. 
As 'twas ere time begun. 

As 'tis, and yet shall be. 
While everlasting ages run, 

On through eternity. 



378 ORIGINAL HYMNS. 

IV. 

Glory to the Father be. 

Equal glory to the Son ; 
And the Holy Sphit, — Three, 

In eternal Godhead One. 
As it was ere time begun, 

As it now is, and shall be. 
While unending ages run 

Onward to eternity. 

V. 

Glory to the Father be. 

Glory to the Son, 
Glory to the Spirit, — Three, 

In the Godhead One. 
As it was ere time begun. 

Is, and yet shall be, 
While unending ages run 

To eternity. 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



A. 

Abraham's walk with God, 39. 

Adoration of the Creator, 1, 22. 

Adult schools, 370. 

Affliction, 182, 184. 

After Divine Service, 376. 

All ages praising God, 373. 

Almightiness of God, 30. 

Angels and men, 35. 

Angels and men praising God, 94. 

Anniversaiy, 253. 

Appeal from children, 332. 

Ark of safety, 19, 20. 

Ascension day, 136. 

Ask and receive, 114. 

Assurance of hope, 177. 

B. 

Babel, 21. 

Backslider returning to God, 174. 
Barnabas, 141. 

Believing ti'ust in Jehovah, 200. 
Bereavement, 181. 
Bethlehem, 55. 
Bible, 23, 24. 
^irds and flowers, 295. 



380 INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 

Birthdaj^ 249. 

Birth, Death, and Judgment, 217. 

Body and soul, 222. 

Brotherly love, 201. 

Burial Ground, preparation of, 322. 



c. 

Calvary, 54, 61, 64. 

Centenary of a Christian Church, 204. 

of the Moravian Church, 283. 
of the United Brethren at Hernhut, 285. 
of the Brethren's Eldership and Missions, 287 
of "VVesleyan Methodism, 254. 
of a Christian Sisterhood, 353 
Change and progression, 150. 
Charity, 140, 167. 

School, 366. 
Children, appeal from poor, 332. 

numbering their days, 348. 
praying for grace, 335. 
praising God, 355. 
scriptural examples of, 352. 
worshipping God, 369, 372. 
China evangelized, 272. 
Cholera, visitation of, 309. 

confession and supplication during prevalence of, 

310. 
thanksgiving for removal of, 311, 312. 
Christ, birth of, 33, 55, 93. 

amidst His people, 133. 
He saved others, &c., 127. 
died for sinners, 127. ra 
His fight and conquest, 161. 
in various characters, 167. 
names and offices of, 17. 
our example in suffering, 64, 128. 
renewal in image of, 168. 
the Friend of children, 334. 
the Prince of peace, 63. 
walking with, 334. 
Christ's mission, 62. 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 381 



Christ's love to children, 346. 

universal reign, 275, 276. 
Christian graces, 167. 

unity and peace, 7. 
Israel, 59. 
soldier, 43, 331. 

confidence and stability, 356. 
Christmas, 252. 
Church, 264. 

on laying foundation stone of, 313. 

consecration of, 314. 

a lighthouse, 146. 

glorious and impregnable, 208. 

its peace and prosperity, 103. 

militant and triumphant, 202. 

the universal, 142. 
Close of the year, 303. 
Closet prayer, 83. 
Communion of saints. 111, 115. 
Complaint, 183. 

Confession and repentance, 174. 
Covenant of peace, 112. 
Covenanting with God, 38, 125. 
Creation, 2, 3. 

God seen in, 4. 

all invites to worship God, 12. 
Creator-Spirit, 18. 

D. 

Day of grace, 119. 

after Judgment, 236. 
Daily prayer, 84. 
Day's journey, prayer for, 194. 
David, 352. 
Deafness, 245. 
Death, 228. 

support in, 229. 
and sin conquered, 229. 
Deliverance of God's people, 45. 
in the wilderness, 45. 
from captivity, 46. 
from malignant disease, 47. 



382 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 



Deliverance from perils at sea, 48. 

from trouble, 192. 
Deluge, escape from, 20. 
Despondency, 186. 

corrected 18V. 
Doxologies, 355, 311. 



E. 



Earth, full of God's goodness, 10. 
Erection of a Sunday School, 333. 
Evening thoughts, 85. 
Eternity, 238. 



F. 

Faith, Hope and Charity, 167. 
Faith, trials of, 179. 
walk of, 169. 
Fall and restoration of man, 15, 16, 17. 
Family altar, 207, 
table, 207. 
Farewell to a missionary, 257. 
Fellowship of saints, 162. 

Church, reception into, 153. 

Christian, symbols of, 155. 

of heavenly travellers 156. 

bond of, 158. 
Female Friendly Society, 304. 
Fervent supplication, 86. 
Field of the world, 259. 
Flight of time, 221. 
Flock of Christ, 58, 164, 364. 
Flood, 19. 
For ever with the Lord, 234, 238. 

a. 

Garden thoughts, 263, 
Gentiles, exhorted to praise God, 91. 
gathering of, 260. 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 383 



Gethsemane, 64, 131. 
Gifts and graces, 140, IGT. 
Gloria Patri, 375. 

Glory to God in songs of praise, 93. 
God in all things, 5, 6, 22. 
guards his people, 148. 
long-suffering of, 50. 
majesty of, 41. 
universally worshipped, 95. 
God's blessing to Abraham, 39. 
image in his saints, 189. 
law, 25. 
mercy, 190, 

providence and goodness to childi'en, 34*7. 
Good Shepherd, 40, 57^106, 164, 325, 326, 364. 
Gospel blessings, 302. 
Grace and glory, 166. 
day of, 119. 
of Jesus Christ, 126. 
Grave, 328. 
Gypsies, call to, 242. 

H. 

Hallelujah! 98, 336. 
Happiness in Christ, 334. 
Harvest, 296, 297. 

of both worlds, 301. 
Heavenly longings, 135. 
Heart, contrition of, 69. 

given to God, 170, 337. 
Heritage of God's people, 54, 198. 
Heaven, the saints' home, 231. 

in prospect, 161. 

invitation to go to, 120. 

preparation for, 225. 

on earth, 226. 

antepast of, 227. 
Holy Scriptures, 24. 
Horeb, 51. 

Hosanna to Christ, 845, 357, 860. 
Hospital, public, 305, 307. 



384 INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 

Humiliation of Christ, 126. 
HumiUty, 190, 339. 



I. 

Image of Christ, 124, 168, 181. 

Infant School, 363. 

Isaac, 352. 

Israel, restoration of, 241. 



J. 

Jesus, name ofj 34, 81. 
our pattern, 128. 
Jews, invitation to, 240. 
Joseph, 352. 
Jubilee, year of, 269. 

of Baptist Missionary Society, 280. 

of Church Missionary Society, 282. 

of Loudon Missionary Society, 267. 

of Religious Tract Society, 290. 

of Sunday School Union, '361, 362, 374. 

of a minister, 329. 

of Christian Sisterhood, 353. 

hymn, 98. 
Juvenile Missionary Meeting, 261. 



L. 

Labrador, 288. 

Lapse and improvement of time, 204. 
Laying foundation stone of a place of worship, 315, 319. 
of a church, 313. 
of a church and cemetery, 8lY. 
Life and death, 213. 

and judgment, 214, 217, 230. 
preparation for, 221. 
Life's eternal issues, 218. 
Light and truth, 37. 

natural and spiritual, 341. 
Lighthouse, 146. 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 385 



Living and dead, their states, 225. 
Lord's Day worship, 99, 115. 

Prayer, 67, 143. 

Supper, 131, 132. 
Love to the triune God, 178. 
Lovest thou Me? 194. 
Loxley, 360. 
Luther, 256. 



M. 

Mariners, 246. 
Mary Magdalene, 57. 

mother of Jesus, 56. 
sister of Lazarus, 57. 
Mary's choice, 147. 
Mercies acknowledged, 205. 
Messenger of peace, 325. 
Messiah manifested, 33, 62. 
Messiah's peaceful triumphs, 256. 
Midnight, 212. 

Millennial anticipations, 275, 278. 
Minister, appointment of, ^4. 
death of, 326. 

in the prime of life, 327. 
in old age, 428, 330. 
Ministers, meeting of 325. 
Missionary work, 259, 263. 
success, 266. 
death of a, 270. 
Moment, the value of, 223. 
Morning, 208, 209, 210. 
Moses, 352. ' 

in the desert, 51. 
death of, 53. 



N. 



Naaman, 352. 

Name above every name, 81. 

^^ativity of Christ, 93, 239. 

17 



386 ' INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 

Nature, voices of, 245. 

and grace progressive, 150. 
Neff, Felix, hymn of, 224. 
Negroes, 268. 
New creation, 18. 
Night thoughts, 212. 
Noon, 211. 

0. 

Old and young praising God, 356. 

Old age, 219. 

Omnipotence of God, 148. 

Omnipresence of God, 42. 

Omniscience of God, 28, 42, 118. 

Opening of a place of worship, 316, 318, 320. 

a chai)el and Sunday school, 323. 
Organ, for opening of an, 321. 
Orphan Asj'lum, 365. 
Our Master Jesu?, 268. 

P.* 

. Parents and family of mankind, 14. 
Parting of Christian friends, 138. 
Past and present, 188. 

present, fnture, 215, 
Peace of mind, 180. 

invocation to, 248. 
Pentecost, 139, 253, 342. 
Pilgrimage of life, 24, 60, 151, 156, 111. 

prayers on, 195. 
PJsgah-vision, 53. 
Praise and thanksgiving, 90. 
Pra3'er, what it is, 66. 

the Lord's, 67, 143. 
closet, 83. 
daily, 84. 
pleading in, 79, 
perseverance in, 80. 
confidence in, 81. 
wants and wishes in, 67. 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 387 

Prayer, preparation of heart for. 69. 

resolution in, 70. 

exercise of faith in, 71. 

through Christ alone, 72, 81. 

scriptural examples of, 73. 

for gracious obedience, 87. 

for the Holy Spirit's influence, 88. 

for a blessing on the Word, 101. 

for grace in self-knowledge, 110,' 171. 

for Christ-likeness, 113, 

for humility, 190. 

for peace of mind, 180. 

for a change of heai-t, 164. 

acceptance and guidance in, 83. 

for an aged minister, 328. 

for an obedient heart, 338. 

for bread, in time of scarcity, 294. 

for Divine manifestations, 199. 

for preservation from sinful words, 350. 

for spiritual assistance 162. 

for spiritual blessings, 340. 

for Divine mercy, 176. 

in bereavement, 181. 

in affliction, 182, 184. 

to give the heart to God, 151. 
Prayers, our Saviour's, 75. 
Prince of Peace, 63. 
Prisoner of the Lord, 185. 
Promised land, 53. 
Providence. 22, 144, 206. 

and grace, 145. 
Divine, chooses our lot, 149. 
Public worship, 101, 102, 104, 105, 107, 109. 

R. 

Ragged Schools, 367. 
Recovery from drowning, 308. 
Redeemer, a refuge of safety, 31. 
Redemption, gratitude for, 124. 
Resignation, 89. 
Resuri'ection, Christ's, 130. 
power of, 129, 



388 INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 

Rest for the soul 23. 
Rivelin, 360. 
Ruth, 352. 

S. 
Sabbath, rest, 11. 

schools, 373. 

worship in the sanctuary, 104. 
in a sick chamber, 185. 
vows, 142. 

on eai'th and in heaven, 3*73. 
universal, 278. 
Saints and sinners, 235. 
Samuel, 352. 
School, erection of, 333. 
Schools, National and British, 364. 
Scriptural examples for the young, 352. 
Seeking the Lord, 123. 
Self knowledge, 171. 
discoveries, 172. 
deception, 36. 
Separation on earth, re-union in heaven, 359. 
Sheffield Infirmary, 305. 
Sick chamber meditation, 185. 
Sin, its universality, 32. 
Sinai, 54. 

Solomon's prayer, 74. 
Song of songs, 92. 

of saints in glory, 161, 238. 
Soul, the, 8. 

temple of the, 9. 
deception of the, 36. 
ransomed by death of Christ, 334. 
Spirit and Word of God, 260. 
Spiritual worship, 107. 
Still small voice, the, 200. 
Surrender of all to God, 182. 
Sunday School meeting, 342. 

evening song for, 121. 
anniversary, 358. 
Union, 344. 
teacher, death of, 354. 



INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 389 



Tabor, 54. 
Teacher, 325. 

death of a, 354. 
Te Deum Laudamus, 96. 
Testimonies of God, 41. 
Thankcgiving for harvest, 297. 
Three Marys, 56. 

mountains, 54, 
Time, life, and man, 216. 

past, present, future, 49. 
To-day, 221. 

Tongue, government of the, 349. 
Tribulation and prayer, 175. 
Trinity worshipped, 178, 198. 
Trumpet of salvation, 45. 
Trust in the Lord, 192, 



u. 

Union, Christian, s^^mbolized, 157. 
Unity in faith, hojJe, and feeling, 343. 



V. 

Vain confidence, 36. 

Vows and prayers of youth, 336. 



w. 

"Wadsley Church Schools, 360. 

Waiting upon God, 100, 108, 116, 117. 

Walk of faith, 169. 

War and peace, 44, 91. 

Wan-ior, Christian, 43. 

Watch and pray, 165. 

Watchman, 325. 

Waters of life, 60, 62. 

Wharucliffe, 360. 



390 INDEX TO SUBJECTS. 

Whitsuntide, 342. 
Wisdom, 27, 873. 

prayer for, 37, 74, 78. 
Word of God, 26, 118. 
Working for God, 159. 
Worthy the Lamb, 92. 

Y. 

Young and old praising God, 356. 
Youth vowing to serve the Lord, 336 



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